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Ask HN: Do cyberattacks cause physical damage to servers?
For example, do they reduce the lifetimes of SSDs significantly?
- mardiyah 5y agono at all
- arboghast 5y agoYou mean I can’t just telnet and send a power surge?
- PaulHoule 5y agoIf they deliberately wrote a high volume of data to the SSD then they could decrease the lifetime.
- spansoa 5y agoThe Wiper attacks mostly hit Windows boxes. Not sure about the likes of Linux servers, although Linux is not immune. But to answer your question: SSDs can survive a wiper/ransomware attack as they can endure a full wipe and then a re-install, even if that hampers further re-installs since cloud services love to use fresh from-the-factory hardware.