20 years ago, the blame would fall on "big oil", then it was north korea, now russia...
...and in reality, it might have been an angry former employee who just happens to know all the default passwords set everywhere.
Russia basically gains nothing by doing this, except even worse relations with the germans (it's not like the germans will say "oh, the russians hacked us, we better buy their gas now")
Since day one all Russia has done is sabre rattle about the war.
It turns out that all of the hysteria against 5G was an attempt by a psychopathic dictator in the future to end humanity by taking down all of the 5G towers to prevent the sabotage of the wind farms.
Close to heart because I know of a major wind project cancelled in my area due to the government commissioning an 'environmental review' which concluded the whole project had to be canned because it'd endanger a parrot. Meanwhile, the logging continued unabated...
Meanwhile the raptors are still shredded...
Again, I know of projects where that entire angle was just a political one used to cancel wind projects in favour of staying reliant on coal. I liked that parrot too; it's probably doomed anyway due to the fact that destruction of native forests is rampant. How will the raptors do in global warming?
Raptors will probably go extinct first because nutty activists imagine criticism of misguided environmental priorities may be safely ignored because of who brought it up...thus committing a tragic error.
My personal feeling is giant HAWT technology should be banned due to the potential for environmental damage.
The big threats to smaller birds are glass buildings and domestic cats, but they don't get as much discourse.
Same thing for surf beach communities. First time I stayed a few days near a surf beach I was surprised by the penetrating deep rumble of every single set of waves that crashed on the beach.
I think the health issues caused by living near a wind farm would be similar to those experienced by living near anything that the individual has some kind of righteous moral opposition to (read: lack of understanding of).
Imagine a future where airports can only be located 50km from any other civilisation due to the health effects that wind farms are accused of causing. Combine that with 4G being the upper limit of mobile connectivity because 5G was found to be both a Chinese conspiracy for world domination and a radiation health risk.
Unless, as they know, the Russians know, and everybody knows, they don't have any choice in the matter. They can't replace Russian gas imports, and without them their economy would be severely crippled ( as argued by many unions, trade body representatives, etc.).
I'm just saying that it's convenient to just blame russia for everything without any proof.
So, who else?Who has a motive and the capabilities to do this?
Realistically... by stirring the shit up in europe, the country that gains the most is.. well.. USA. Do something, blame russia, make EU economy worse, worsen the relations, make european countries stop production due to energy crisis, sell them american products, and if things get even worse, sell weapons, maybe even to both sides if things get desparate enough, watch europe destroyed again while their own economy gets a great boost.
It seems more of a response/warning to the sending of weapons that has a tiny bit of teeth but not enough to escalate further.
If they consider themselves at war with NATO this attack does make sense.
Realistically... by stirring the shit up in europe, the country that gains the most is.. well.. USA. Do something, blame russia, make EU economy worse, worsen the relations, make european countries stop production due to energy crisis, sell them american products, and if things get even worse, sell weapons, maybe even to both sides if things get desparate enough, watch europe destroyed again while their own economy gets a great boost.
EU <-> Russia relations are about as bad as they can get short of open war, trying to make them worse is somewhere between meaningless and self-destructive for the US. If the US wanted to escalate they have easier ways.
Russia is better off when the alternatives to their energy are poorly performing or nonexistant.
Don't make it more complicated than it is. You can go round-and-round all day with: it looks like A did it, but oh that's what they _want_ me to think, or maybe _that's_ what they want me to think. Really 9 times out of 10 it's the obvious.
It also looked like iraq had weapons of mass destruction and iraqi soldiers were killing babies... but a few years later, it looked a bit different.
This war is just one of the many in the last decades, and the west only cares, because it's the russians doing it and not americans/nato. The world that didn't care about a 20 year long occupation of afghanistan (... and iraq, syria, libya, etc.), because the media didn't tell them to care... now they care, again, because of the media. So yeah... an attack, where russia literally gains nothing and the result is only worse relations seems iffy to me.
They're two hairs away from direct war. You've lost the plot.
This hack attack "attacks" Germany without actually doing any meaningful damage. It serves US interests more than Russian.
>Really 9 times out of 10 it's the obvious.
9 out of 10 hack attacks are attributed on the basis of little more than an IP address and the politically convenient culprit is blamed. It'd be an easy thing to get away with.
The US has little to gain, Germany<->Russia relations are already in the trash. Why bother trying to achieve what Russia already did for you?
The US has a _lot_ to lose and extremely little to gain. If they were shown to be at fault it would be a huge PR win for Russia and would basically tank the goodwill that intra-NATO has gained.
A whipping boy is innocent. Russia is largely not.
> Remember when Russia was our "friend"?
No.
Do that to a couple thousand wind turbines and yes, "better buy their gas now". Even better if you do it the other direction - take the brakes off in a storm, and you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tqjuvy7i0.
There's a lot of interest in this sort of thing. https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...
They're _currently_ buying Russian gas.
And they'd be able to prove that how?
The worst thing russia can do to get them to buy more gas, is to directly attack them. Do you really expect them to even talk to russia, if russia did that? Just the outrage (fueled by the media) would make people forgive the government the highly inflated prices of imported electricity, while they fixed the wind production. Russia literally has nothing to gain by doing this, and a lot to lose...
I'm not Tucker Carlson trying to get you to think Russia isn't all bad, but I'm also saying that when it comes to hacking, there could be others involved.