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German media refer to experts by security company Norsecorp who said that this was not only thze biggest such attack ever seen - but that it as stunnihng to observe that it did no significant damage. And right this fact, these experts say, is most alarming, because they take it as an indication that somebody has launched this attack only as a test run for a very mighty, powerful cyberweapon, to see whether it works or not.

There are many nations on this planet whose capacities to handle web data traffic would have been knocked out by the scale of this attack. Most states, to be preciseIf launched for serious intentions of attacking such states, they would have had to handle a complete breakdown of their technical infrastructure. The attacked companies in this test run are all kown for having quite huge reserves in handling data traffic.

The computer electronics in the hardware of private households used in this attack were mostly made by one Chinese company, and to lower production costs the electronics components were chosen to be so cheap that they cannot be updated with firmware or new security code. The vulnerability cannot be patched.

Key code used in this attack to hack foreign gadgets and eevices and use them for the bot attack, was published already weeks ago on the web, and is known under the name "Mirai". Attackers can use it to delete their traces and makie it impossvb le to analyse their attack pattern, it also allows any "custoimer" of Mirai to construct his own peroisnal cyber weapon easily, according to his needs.

It reminds me of what I described three or four years ago, about drone technology: that drone technology components will be internationally produced and sold, but used to construct drones by just anybody, who then can attack sombody else, a nation for example, without the attcked being able to point fingers at the ID of the attcker, for even if he can get his hands on the drone, he will only find it to be build by components knowing heads can buy at will on the black - or even the open - market. Possessing the enemy's wepaon will nit help you to identify the attacker. Could be companies. States. Crime cartels. Terror organizations. Private persons with enough money. Anything goes.

The state will become more and more unable to protect its citizens form this kind of drone attacks. Could be cyber attacks. Could be assassination attacks. Could be bombing runs. Could be espionage, surveillance or computer attacks.

The nextbig war will become interesting. I think it already has begun. And there are no clear frontlines anymore.