Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped UFO Spotted Over Texas

The piece argues that understanding how a reported ‘soft-sabotage’ at a Norwegian dam occurred is more useful than attribution, framing attacks as instances within broader classes and warning that patching often fixes only specific instances. It recommends mitigating both before ingress (segregation/air-gapping, strong link encryption) and beyond the point of agency (independent fail-safe mechanisms), noting likely weaknesses were exposed external communications and absent effective fail-safes, and emphasizing supply chain and insider-risk considerations.