The United States has been tracking serious cyberattacks on US infrastructure for years.
Those attacks are hardly minor–the intrusions threaten all our computer-linked infrastructure, which in the great Venn Diagram of life means basically all our electrical generation, water distribution, pipelines, power plants, communications, and even medical systems.
Computers and software make life more efficient is many ways, but there is always a trade-off between efficiency and resilience. Our current infrastructure is about as brittle as it has been in a very long time, and China has a hammer they can use to shatter it.
They want us to know that.
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) April 10, 2025
The Wall Street Journal has a scoop about that last bit. For years the Chinese have vigorously denied that the Chinese government or Chinese Communist…
