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by joshuajill 1366 days ago
Quoting the Washington Post:

> Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal.
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throwrqX 1366 days ago
The Wikipedia article quotes V. D. Zakhmatov to say this kind of attack was never possible in the first place because the control systems were either manual or analog, not digital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

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joshuajill 1366 days ago
He says it wasn't likely because most systems were analogically controlled. Emphasis in most.
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