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OPINION There are three little words to make the heart beat faster in anyone who knows what they mean: critical infrastructure resilience.
Key facts
- These were state of the art when TETRA was developed in the 1980s and 1990s, and work as well in 2026 as you might expect
- There have been upgrades and, especially after the 2023 vulnerability disclosures, an accelerated program of making things better
- (North America is the only region where TETRA is uncommon, as it isn’t approved for public service use — This was either acute foresight or the fact that the TE in TETRA, now officially TErrestrial, used to stand for Trans-Europe
Summary
This is doubly so if that country is five minutes by incoming missile from an implacable hyper-competent enemy sworn to invade you. Thus it was a bad day indeed when Taiwan’s entire bullet train system was disabled for nearly an hour by an unknown attacker. The information released by the Taiwanese authorities is scant on details, but enough to be pretty sure what happened. There have been upgrades and, especially after the 2023 vulnerability disclosures, an accelerated program of making things better.