<story><title>Lessons from France&apos;s first cyber-attack, nearly two centuries ago</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/rewind/the-crooked-timber-of-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joemi</author><text>&amp;quot;Cyber-attack&amp;quot; seems like the wrong term in this case. They weren&amp;#x27;t trying to attack or damage anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KekDemaga</author><text>They were attacking the market in a sense as it relied on latency of information to determine prices. Certainly I&amp;#x27;d dub these gentlemen posthumously as hackers, maybe they were the first.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lessons from France&apos;s first cyber-attack, nearly two centuries ago</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/rewind/the-crooked-timber-of-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joemi</author><text>&amp;quot;Cyber-attack&amp;quot; seems like the wrong term in this case. They weren&amp;#x27;t trying to attack or damage anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AskewEgret</author><text>I agree.  As well, these things were called semaphores rather than mechanical telegraphs.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the British Navy sent many cannonballs in their direction during the Napoleonic Wars, which were long before 1834.  That might count as a cyber-attack.</text></comment>