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This has been a subject I've been monitoring for quite some time. The recent charges brought against China regarding the decades-long hacking campaign impacting millions of people demonstrates the fragility of our cyber infrastructure and difficulties that exist in detecting and mitigating those campaigns. It is often through those environments where something like a cyber-enabled terrorist campaign would occur.
The Snowden leaks described some tactics that the NSA used but there wasn't any research or information that describes how those campaigns can influence behavior.
In the link I provided, I just created a subreddit and it was immediately banned after I made this post.
The vulnerability:
Foreign adversaries leveraging knowledge of US government corruption where those dynamics contribute toward torture and human rights abuses.
By targeting and exploiting US government corruption, adversaries would have incentives to determine the threshold that the United States government has in detecting and giving a good faith duty to warn to citizens being harmed by such a campaign by engaging in increasingly escalatory attacks that could be construed as terrorism. The failure of the government to notify victims or survivors would potentially signal to adversaries to escalate those attacks in efforts to achieve their organization's goals while weakening the intelligence community.
Allies of the United States would likely determine that the events are somewhat normalized but struggle to understand or mitigate those threats as they are aware of how organizations are reflexively defensive in their protection of their own corruption.
As adversaries exploit the silence of the United States government, they are potentially able to claim their actions are in defense of the people being impacted by the United States' harm while simultaneously exacerbating it too.
This dynamic explains why it's critical that the united States engages in an unwavering commitment to uphold human rights and equal protection, even to people they do not like, as its absence represents a critical vulnerability easily exploited by adversaries where the United States is left with little recourse.