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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by erentz on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:56PM (#14915057)
A great soft target is electricity grid. The timelines for manufacturing large transformers for example can be many months and they usually don't have as much redundancy as you would expect. A semi coordinated attack against the grid, using dynamite to take out a number of pylons along main HV lines, easily accessible because they're out in rural areas. Combine with a number of sticks thrown over fences at transformers. And you could massively impact the US economy for months.
Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by dx034 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:02AM (#14919137)
The economist had a pretty good article about that. It dealt with electromagnetic impulses, as those could take out several at once:

http://www.economist.com/news/world-if/21724908-huge-potenti...