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The nationwide ground stop is a cyberattack, not a telecom outage
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The FAA called it a temporary telecommunications outage. A lot of people have already decided that has to be cover for a cyberattack. That's a serious claim, and so far the public statements don't back it. The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/1033489/faa-ground-stop
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Homeland Security has been repeating that there's no indication this is an attack and that this isn't another 9/11. They're clearly trying to shut that rumor down.
The FAA's own language is a temporary telecommunications outage, and they said every flight has been accounted for. That's not the same as 'we already know it was a cyberattack.'
There's also reporting that the FAA doesn't even know the cause yet. If they don't know, we definitely don't know enough to call it an attack.