Interesting article, but it feels like they dropped the ball by not having any mention at all of what people attacking this infrastructure are being charged with (and what penalties are being proposed, if they’ve said anything but “be harsher”).

It absolutely is critical infrastructure that warrants significant criminal charges, but if the police don’t have any evidence to start from and there’s no mention of actual penalties involved now, it’s hard to see what a reasonable path forward would be.

I feel something is off. I understand that it is an act of vandalism, but those providers are asking for a special treatment for their equipment with higher penalties. Isn’t better to just raise the current penalty? Or a new law target not just fibers but “critical infrastructures” which needs to satisfy a set of requirements or criteria?

Private companies wants state to foot the bill of improving their opsec.