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If we're unlucky, the 'black swan event' will be something along the likes of Pluto's Kiss. Imagine a Morris worm equivalent, but which bricks the computers it
by Filligree 9y ago
If we're unlucky, the 'black swan event' will be something along the likes of Pluto's Kiss. Imagine a Morris worm equivalent, but which bricks the computers it infects after destroying the filesystem.
Even if everyone has backups of everything, offline, it'll be years before all the destroyed computers can actually be replaced. This isn't a scenario I want to happen for real.
- LeoPanthera 9y agoOn the plus side, you can probably guarantee it would only ever happen once.
- Zopieux 9y agoHaha, no, you can't. Since when do humans learn from their mistakes?
- knowaveragejoe 9y agoNot infrequently, but it's in vogue to hold the belief that they don't.
- abecedarius 9y agoYou could do some much more interesting things with a hack than wiping and bricking a bunch of computers, even if the bricking part is doable.