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Cyberattack halts Denmark-Germany tunnel construction — RMF24

A cyberattack halted construction of the Fehmarn Belt road-and-rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, affecting the FLC consortium’s equipment and workers’ access.

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1. Big picture, where this leads is a lot of physical stuff just getting unplugged from the Internet.

   It's very easy to see how this goes — one side of the ledger is the cost savings you get from remote monitoring, remote control, automated cloud backups of access logs from employee badges, or whatever dumb reason this system was internet-connected in the first place.

   On the other side of the ledger is the potential cost and probability of a shutdown from a cyberattack, whether that's from a belligerent state actor, a malfunctioning or maliciously deployed AI agent swarm, weird accelerationist hackers, or whatever, plus the cost of constantly defending and hardening systems against attack.

   Chances are, the cost/benefit analysis will heavily favor just unplugging the thing from the Internet.

2. Danish source: https://www.dk-sundhed.dk/ritzau/1f0b6211-3397-4869-98aa-a2e...
3. AI will exponentially increase the number of cyberattacks. The likely outcome is

   1. Legacy firmware will be a bloodbath, leading to a consolidation of firms

   2. All digital infrastructure will have an always on AI "shield" of agents that monitor and defend against attacks

   3. The attacks that survive will depend on human points of failure, leading to less control for humans being the default