France: New Mass Sabotage Hits Communications Infrastructure

People are now becoming aware of just how weak digital infrastructure actually is.

With the CloudStrike debacle, then these multiple crises happening in France, one might ask how it would even be possible to fight a major war if the enemy has the ability to turn off all of your infrastructure, and your experts lack the ability to even fix the situation promptly, let alone prevent it from occurring in the first place.

AP:

The French government says multiple telecommunications lines have been hit by acts of vandalism, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France are hosting events for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The scale of the impact is unclear, as is whether it has affected any Olympic activities. The vandalism came after arson attacks hit train networks around France on Friday, hours before the Olympics opening ceremony.

Marina Ferrari, secretary of state in charge of digital affairs, posted on X that damage in several regions overnight Sunday to Monday affected telecommunications operators. She said that led to localized impact on access to fiber lines and fixed and mobile telephone lines.

Paris 2024 Olympics organizers would not immediately comment.

A national investigation is underway into last week’s train sabotage, which disrupted travel for nearly a million passengers in France as well as people in London and in other neighboring countries. Train traffic had largely resumed by Monday.

French media reported that an extreme-left activist was arrested at a rail facility on Sunday in the Seine-Maritime region of western France. But the Paris prosecutor’s office said it was unconnected to what happened Friday and that no one has been arrested so far in the national investigation into the arson attacks.

If it’s not the extreme left… then maybe it is one of these countries the French are constantly threatening with war?

That would make sense, non?

Why didn’t stuff like this happen during the Tokyo Olympics?