Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in—say—Ohio—up against the Russian cybercommand, which isn’t a fair fight.
When this problem is discussed, people regularly quote the statistic that 85% of US critical infrastructure is in private hands. It’s a handy number, and matches our intuition. Still, I have never been able to find a factual basis, or anyone who knows where the number comes from. Paul Rosenzweig investigates, and reaches the same conclusion.
So we don’t know the percentage, but I think we can safely say that it’s a lot.
michael tat • May 17, 2021 7:38 AM
This estimation is incorrect – and in a different sense from yours.
What is formally classified as ‘private hands’ are not ‘private’ if a bit deeper research is conducted – such as a Swiss doctoral thesis by Glattfelder (2013).
The author looked in ownership of 43000 non-small corporations from 116 countries, and found out that the graph structure reduced to a slightly over 1000 banking and financial corporations in a position of control of 60% of all corporations in the set, and that an even smaller number (100+) of major bankster financial corps controlled about 40% of the corporations. At the same time this core belonged to other core members, and was not controlled from outside by any strangers.
THIS IS WHAT WORLD POWER STRUCTURE IS, objectively measured through the corporate network ownership structure – and this bankster domination easily explaines why mega-corporations act in concert (rather than arbitrarily warring) when strategic initiatives are launched by the ‘Deep State’.
One example from the IT world was the ‘total information awareness’, then flourishing as cloud storage, cloud computing, newer OS versions which no longer belong to individual purchasers, but having a controlling mind of their own located somewhere outside on the corporate Net etc, etc, etc
CRITICAL US STRUCTURE may belong to ‘private’ corporations – but it has never been truly private, as corporate control networks ensure their military-style compliance even if there is no federal law compelling them to do so, they will act ‘voluntarily’ as ordered.
And then A QUESTION ARISES: why mass media and political activists try to conseal this reality and push alarmist points of view to the exclusion of reality-based evaluations?