Straight up, I developed and taught — and @kikta.net now teaches — an entire course at the @alperovitch.institute that boils down to “you can shape adversary cyber activity but you can’t deter it because that’s how intelligence operations work”. Being mad at China for playing the game is ridiculous.

I explained to my class week that despite all the panic about state actor capabilities:

-The biggest threat to electricity is squirrels
-Minecraft skids have the best DDoS capabilities
-No amount of disruption could ever beat misconfiguration, with DNS at the top of the list