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> The USA will continue to exist and function as the USA even without gas pipelines and power generation. Temporary outages, maybe. Sustained outages (or destr
by throwawaygh 5y ago
> The USA will continue to exist and function as the USA even without gas pipelines and power generation.
Temporary outages, maybe. Sustained outages (or destruction) of gas pipelines and power generation, if systemic, would almost certainly mean mass starvation.
- sneak 5y agoI agree. That's not at all what ransomware does or is even within the realm of possibility here, however.
- bluGill 5y agoIt leads in the direction. The better we get at defending against these "lesser" attacks, the better we are at defending against the bigger attacks that might happen. Also the less likely it is someone will develop those attacks in the first place because there is less incentive to learn how they work.