In retaliation for the ongoing U.S.–Israeli war, Iran responded with a novel form of counterattack. For the first time in military history, private sector data centers came under deliberate attack.
In an era when companies known for e-commerce, social networks, and search engines have also become close collaborators with militaries, is bombing their servers fair game?
Three days after the U.S. and Israel began their joint bombardment, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched kamikaze drone strikes against Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that provide an array of cloud computing services to customers throughout the Middle East. The impacts and subsequent fires “caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” according to Amazon, resulting in service outages across the region.
The motive behind the attack, according to Iranian state television, was not to block people from ordering groceries or posting to social media, but rather to highlight “the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.
Except they’re not civilians or civilian infrastructure if they are providing munitions to the military
Who do think works at munitions factories, and shipyards, and aircraft manufacturing plants if not civilians?
Those aren’t civilians. Those are people who work for the military.
If you work for the military, you are not a civilian
Excuse me??? I worked for a private shipyard, so did my dad, that shipyard was also contracted to build naval ships.
I have never, not once, been in the military.
That is the literal definition of a civilian.
If you built war ships, you were a valid target.
Your residential housing wasn’t, but your place of employment certainly was
Morally neutral and innocent civilians, of course 😇