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I was going to interject, but I learned that the American definition of Weapon of Mass Destruction is actually wide, and not limited to what is actually causing
by Majestic121 5y ago
I was going to interject, but I learned that the American definition of Weapon of Mass Destruction is actually wide, and not limited to what is actually causing mass destruction like an atomic bomb or a biological attack.
> In its criminal complaint against the main suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing of 15 April 2013, the FBI refers to a pressure-cooker improvised bomb as a "weapon of mass destruction."
In this context, classifying it as a WMD could make sense (especially for a ransomware which can disable hospitals and sensitive infrastructure), but I think that using WMD to describe it is really watering down the word : an atomic bomb is creating orders of magnitudes more destruction than a spyware
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