{"id":633,"date":"2004-12-06T20:40:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","slug":"this_ought_to_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"This Ought To Be Concerning Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2004\/12\/journal_shaping.html\" target=\"browser\">Global Guerillas<\/a> posts that the attack on the Saudi Consulate was a &#8216;shaping&#8217; attack in preparation for the infrastructure attacks he expects at <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2004\/05\/journal_oil_con.html\" target=\"browser\">Ghawar<\/a> and other Saudi oilfields and distribution hubs.<\/p>\n<p>He sees this as a great risk because of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2004\/05\/design_flaws_wh.html\" target=\"browser\">highly optimized tolerance<\/a>&#8221; &#8230; i.e. systems that are tolerant of the risks they are designed to tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/1207\/p01s03-wome.html\" target=\"browser\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a> agrees, calling the attack &#8220;evidence of the militants&#8217; ability to regenerate quickly in the face of concerted government efforts to disrupt their networks, and then target some of the country&#8217;s most closely guarded installations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be an interesting December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Guerillas posts that the attack on the Saudi Consulate was a &#8216;shaping&#8217; attack in preparation for the infrastructure attacks he expects at Ghawar and other Saudi oilfields and distribution hubs. He sees this as a great risk because of &#8220;highly optimized tolerance&#8221; &#8230; i.e. systems that are tolerant of the risks they are designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}