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Ransomware isn't a "benign, non-functional specimen" :). It has real harms and they can be quite serious. I suppose that - always dangerous to extend an analo
by calpaterson 5y ago
Ransomware isn't a "benign, non-functional specimen" :). It has real harms and they can be quite serious.
I suppose that - always dangerous to extend an analogy - ransomware is more like "intellectual variolation" than vaccination.
I wonder what would happen in wartime though.
- modeless 5y agoRandom, sparse ransomware attacks are absolutely benign compared to what a wartime enemy would do. If you don't think so, you haven't properly imagined the serious, extensive, real world damage that could be done by coordinated simultaneous attacks. Look at Stuxnet's destruction of machinery and then imagine that applied to a wide swath of the economy, including basic infrastructure like water and power, all at once.