Geo Political Risk

[Davexl]

Merkel tells Russia to investigate suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKBN25K0HM

[Davexl]

Why there won’t be a US-China war

China has spent massively on anti-access/area denial weapons that would make war impractical for the US

https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/why-there-wont-be-a-us-china-war/

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Why there won’t be a US-China war

China has spent massively on anti-access/area denial weapons that would make war impractical for the US

https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/why-there-wont-be-a-us-china-war/

And has managed to mount them well out at sea. And has avoided the US situation where the loss of Guam pushes the US back to Hawaii.


And, as Stalin pointed out, "quantity has it's own quality". After all, Aegis does not have infinite capacity - and remind me, where does "infinity" begin?

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Cyber attack (DDoS) brought down the NZX yesterday arvo...who and why I wonder?

[Davexl]

And has managed to mount them well out at sea. And has avoided the US situation where the loss of Guam pushes the US back to Hawaii.


And, as Stalin pointed out, "quantity has it's own quality". After all, Aegis does not have infinite capacity - and remind me, where does "infinity" begin?

In case of the loss of Guam, Wake Island is being developed as a partial fallback position:

US preps for Pacific conflict with Wake Island expansion

https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/us-preps-for-pacific-conflict-with-airfield-expansion-on-wake-island/

[Davexl]

Cyber attack (DDoS) brought down the NZX yesterday arvo...who and why I wonder?

If anyone has access to the Herald subscription, could they paste any pertinent details here - thanks...

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If anyone has access to the Herald subscription, could they paste any pertinent details here - thanks...

From Business Desk.

NZX was the victim of an offshore internet attack which closed down trading just before 4pm this afternoon.
Internet provider Spark said in a statement NZX experienced a "volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack" from offshore, which impacted NZX system connectivity.
As a result NZX decided to halt trading in its cash markets at approximately 15.57.
A DDoS attack aims to disrupt service by saturating a network with significant volumes of internet traffic.
Spark said the attack was able to be mitigated and connectivity has now been restored for NZX.
At its premature close the S&P/NZX 50 Index was trading at a near to a record high.
The outage resulted in brokers being unable to access NZX’s systems or data via the internet.

Probably just a trial run eh ?

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prev post was from last night
just reading this mornings emails now and find more

The international cyberattack that took down the New Zealand stock exchange's public website and public announcements platform is thought to have come from China or Russia.
BusinessDesk understands the attack, which saw the NZX halt trading at 3.57pm yesterday afternoon – just over an hour before the market was due to stop trading for the day - is now the subject of an intensive response by NZ and its western allied intelligence agencies.
The Government Communications Securities Bureau swung into action as soon as the offshore attack occurred and will undoubtedly have involved counterpart agencies among the so-called Five Eyes intelligence grouping involving the US, UK, Australia and Canada, as well as NZ.
CERT NZ, which coordinates with other agencies to support those affected by cyber attacks, declined to comment on whether or not it was involved in the NZX response.
The attack itself, a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, was directed at telecommunications provider Spark, rather than directly at NZX.

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The attack itself, a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, was directed at telecommunications provider Spark, rather than directly at NZX.

Hey peat, where are you getting that from? It's not what Spark are saying.

[Zaphod]

Hey peat, where are you getting that from? It's not what Spark are saying.

FYI Business Desk appear to have reported that word-for-word. This appears to be unverified at this stage though.