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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't see China executing a cyber attack without being willing and able to follow up with military action. Preparation, as you said.

That ship sailed years ago. No one is even keeping up a polite "might be someone else" fiction anymore.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-government-disrupts-botnet-peoples-republic-china-used-conceal-hacking-critical

[–] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I guess my comment was a bit vague. China is certainly currently interfering with our systems on a smaller scale. I was referring to a large scale, widespread cyber attack as described in the article.

It's highly likely China is capable of of that sort of attack. But I don't see how we're more at risk of that happening now than any other military action.

Another commenter described it well as another theater of a potential war, not necessarily that a war is imminent at this point