Joseph P Farrell – This has been an unusual week for articles, especially on the subject of cyber warfare, for a number of people sent me articles about different cyber-warfare attacks. What I want to do today is to bring them to your attention, along with some (very) high octane speculation.
First, Mr. J.S. sent along this article about Chinese cyber attacks on American naval vessels (USS Fitzgerald, anyone?):
US ships targeted by Chinese cyber attackers, report alleges
And of course, no week should go by without a story about the Russians meddling in… well, just about everything, this time, in American power grids, according to this story shared by Mr. S.D.:
In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid
That story sort of reminds me about the speculation I advanced in my book The Third Way, about the French mole inside the KGB’s technical acquisitions division, the “Farewell” case, as the French security services codenamed their mole. In that book I advanced the hypothesis that the gas pipeline explosion that occurred in the Soviet Union was caused by software that had been modified, and then dangled in front of the KGB to steal, with disastrous results. Continue reading →