Although these hecticists often work in some form or the other of the government wing, which exceeds the digital counterpart of “restoring the wetlands”, I still feel that it makes sense to behave more as activists than the part of a hybrid war to the DDOS attacks. Although they can be at all.
Because without playing it too much, the DDOS attacks are not doing much damage. Of course, it is not good that swish or bank-IDs are below for a few hours, but it is not a threat to society. It bothers me a little bit that there are always critics about poor flexibility and the risk of being dependent on our weak digital society and some services. It is important to talk about these things, but bringing them in terms of these attacks is actually what the hecticists want.
It also has attention and responsibility on the victims, even if they have done a great job to save themselves. Services are returning and running. Some people blame the Swedish Transport Administration when EssingLaden Road jam is jammed as climate activists have pasted themselves to the roadway, or airport, when a group of only workers prevents an aircraft from landing an aircraft. But in the eyes of some people, it seems that those who provide digital services need to spend their entire IT budget with a cloudflair to avoid criticism.
