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		dschulz on Feb 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend agai... I don't think it's necessary to physically cut cables. What if critical infrastructure is isolated from savages by just not having routes to/from them? I mean, in a similar way the Team Cymru UTRS[1] works by publishing a list of BGP filters to be imported in routers. [1] https://team-cymru.com/community-services/utrs/

lucb1e on Feb 25, 2022 [–]

Agreed, it was a metaphor and not really meant as a call for physical damage that would (presumably) later have to be fixed again anyway. I should have written that more clearly.

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