Options mentioned here: Disrupting Russian internet access, sabotaging the Russian power grid, and hacking railroad switches to impede supply lines.
"'You could do everything from slow the trains down to have them fall off the tracks,' one person briefed on the matter said."
"'You could do everything from slow the trains down to have them fall off the tracks,' one person briefed on the matter said."
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1496903014757580802
Needless to say, this is an incredibly precarious moment and the U.S. will need to be very careful about calibrating any cyberattacks to avoid catastrophic reprisals. Putin has given apocalyptic warnings about what he'll do if the West tries to stop him.
.@emilyhorne46 slaps down NBC's story about Biden being presented with aggressive cyber retaliation options.
"This report is wildly off base and does not reflect what is actually being discussed in any shape or form." (via @magmill95)
"This report is wildly off base and does not reflect what is actually being discussed in any shape or form." (via @magmill95)
Sign of how seriously the White House is pushing back against this NBC story: Jen Psaki not only retweeted me tweeting out the denial but also tweeted it herself. They don't do that for just any story.
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1496919281535111211
The major pushback to the NBC story suggests that the White House is *very* worried about Russia misinterpreting the story, assuming that Biden has approved or will approve major cyberattacks, and preemptively escalating against us.
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