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At what point do nations start treating these attacks as terrorism? Attacking vital infrastructure in this way should be more than a few years in prison.
Terrorism is violence for political reasons. This attack isn’t violent and we don’t know why it was committed yet. Being ransomware, it’s likely it was purely to scam money, rather than influence politics. A crime isn’t elevated to terrorism when it’s bad enough.
I’d argue when they hit hospitals and major infrastructure, it should count. Politics go back to control and money anyway.
As far as we know, this wasn’t made for political reasons. I just don’t see what benefit there is to calling a crime something it’s not. What they did was already extremely bad and very illegal. But it wasn’t an act of terrorism (as far as we know).
Today, the administrative authority of the Port of Nagoya has issued a notice about a malfunction in the “Nagoya Port Unified Terminal System” (NUTS) — the central system controlling all container terminals in the port.