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"What if they used a zero day and prevented a 9/11 size 3000 person, multi-billion-dollar terrorist attack?" What if terrorists use a zero day to blow up a nuc
by tobltobs 9y ago
"What if they used a zero day and prevented a 9/11 size 3000 person, multi-billion-dollar terrorist attack?"
What if terrorists use a zero day to blow up a nuclear plant?
- criley2 9y agoI'm talking about hypothetical things in the past, you're making up hypotheticals about the future. Also, I provided a precise example of intelligence compromising ISIS for intelligence regarding airplane bombs, so my example isn't that outlandish.
- tobltobs 9y agoWhen evaluating a risk it isn't a good idea to restrict yourself to scenarios which already have happened.
- criley2 9y agoBut the subject isn't risk evaluation, it's the idea of a "score" where using NatSec state zero days get positive points for saving lives and saving money, and negative points for when terrorists use leaked zerodays or take advantage of unfixed holes. The claim was "any terrorist attack using these proves it's a net loss" My response was "the classified nature of positive points doesn't invalidate positive points, and you cannot call it a net loss without a full accounting" Now it's just devolved into a game of hypotheticals where people try to disprove the idea of a full accounting by creating even sillier terrorist scenarios?