The problem isn't our enemies knowing how fragile our infrastructure is as much as it Americans not knowing (or not caring) and being unwilling to spend money to make it less fragile.
> Americans not knowing (or not caring) and being unwilling to spend money to make it less fragile.
And of course the fact that for the most part those most impacted by these outages aren't the ones making the decisions about what money to spend in the first place.
I have no meaningful influence on my ISP's network backbone. I don't even have a real choice in ISP so it's not like I can go to someone else, and they know it.
I currently have 500mbit/sec service from my cable company and the only other options are ~50mbit/sec 4G or Frontier DSL that claims 24mbit/sec while rarely syncing beyond 8. Those aren't actual alternatives. If I want to have a connection that can properly support a household full of gamers and streamers, I'm stuck with this unless I want to add another zero or two to my monthly bill for a dedicated fiber line.
This is the best case scenario for the majority of the US. One cable company that's mostly decent, one shitty DSL provider, and a few wireless services that have very limited spectrum and data caps. Almost no one in this country has true competition in wired broadband unless they have a municipal fiber service or are lucky enough to be in one of the few cities that Google dumped money in to.
