Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs

The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars. Twenty-two feet tall, a hundred and twenty-two feet long, and sitting in the woods just up the street from Port Chester Middle School, the dam spans Blind Brook, a minor waterway that runs south through the city and empties into Long Island Sound. Built in the early nineteen-hundreds, the dam was updated most recently in June of 2013, when local officials gathered to commemorate the addition of a two-million-dollar sluice gate, which would help manage flooding in the nearby neighborhood of Indian Village. Speeches were given, and novelty scissors were wielded to cut through red, white, and blue ribbon.