🔫 Pew Pew is turning into beep bop beep 💻. Conflict has entered the digital space... Welcome to a completely different battlefield.

What happens when enemies have access to your country’s electrical grid? what about communication systems? What about nuclear weapon systems? We are entering the scary new world of cyber warfare.

How does it work?

• Well code can have bugs or vulnerabilities that allow others entry into the system. These are called exploits.
• A (large) market of hackers has formed around finding these exploits.
• Government agencies are the main (and best paying) customers for these exploits.
• Once an exploit is known about, the related company can patch it.
• Thus, if governments defensively fix the bugs that they know about, they also lose their best weapons.
• So governments around the world have a bunch of ways to hack each other, but they are not fixing their own defenses because that would alert their enemies to those exploits.

Thus cyber warfare is a weird battlefield. Here you spend millions of dollars to find a one-shot offensive weapon… But that can also be used against you. You do not want to pre-emptively build defenses because then you lose your offensive weapon.

Great video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_7CGl6VWaQ

If you are into podcasts, check out darknet diary's! It is amazing! It really delves into the stories of various criminal hackers, security personnel, etc.