Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific

This commentary warns that latency, bandwidth limits, and authentication delays across computing and communications stacks create hard-to-detect vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause cascading failures in critical infrastructure (power grids, water, communications). It notes both kinetic asymmetric attacks (drones/explosives) and cyber intrusions (grid control hacks, nation-state APTs like Stuxnet) as plausible threats, emphasizing systemic fragility and interdependence but providing no technical indicators or concrete incident data.