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[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Should be noted that in Norway it is not just for war, but rather any emergency like natural disasters or someone takes out critical infrastructure in a digital attack etc.

You can see all the information that is sent out here: https://www.sikkerhverdag.no/en/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Should be noted that in Norway it is not just for war, but rather any emergency like natural disasters or someone takes out critical infrastructure in a digital attack etc.

A digital attack would be an act of war, though, so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, digital attacks happen all the time, nobody will go to war over it.

Example of only one type of attack in real time: https://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&list=0&time=18763&view=map

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

terabits per second, sustained..

Yikes!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not necessarily.

It could be something as simple as "oops, someone downloaded a file they shouldn't have, and now all the systems of the power grid in a quarter of the country has been encrypted by ransomware"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

If the July 19th Crowdstrike incident had affected Linux rather than Windows, the impact would have been orders of magnitude worse.

People have so little awareness of how fragile the systems we rely on are - it's not a matter of "if" - it's a matter of "when" we'll see a widespread incident that goes well beyond a mild inconvenience for most.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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