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[If both sides start to ratchet this up, how long before it’s the Air Traffic Control system that goes haywire and few jets crash into each other...
Or rolling blackouts begin...
Or Wall Street becomes unstable...
Or Financial/ATM networks go down, especially nerve racking given most people don’t carry cash anymore...]

It’s the kind of thing you might want to do in the middle of a war. In peacetime, it’s just not that big a deal to fix. In wartime, given that resources will be stretched to their limits, it might be irreparable. That’s just another sub rosa reason for keeping capabilities on the down low. In fact, it might be carefully concealed through an entire war, unless something critical occurred that required it to be used in a way that resulted in exposure.

True, but suppose it’s a hit and run strategy...

Take down a single company that processes credit card transactions for a short period of time, disrupt a few million transactions create angst in the consumer world...

It would probably slide under the radar because it was just a single company that was hit....and they weren’t very up on cyber security anyway....

I can think of a couple of examples that I have been suspicious of.....

Delta had their entire network go offline a couple of years ago, they blamed it on a ops center going offline in Atlanta...

United’s entire network went offline and it was blamed on a router change in Chicago....

the NYSE halted trading during the day and could not close the day out a few years back, they blamed it on a software upgrade....

And most recently Google, YouTube, and all their other companies went down worldwide last week.....they to my knowledge haven’t released any official excuse....

I don’t believe any of the official excuses..

I think they were hacked by someone, IMO many of the cyber attacks are done by an insider within a company...