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Mugging isn't a good analogy also because software attacks, once possible, can be automated and distributed widely, are "wormable", and mugging is harder to do
by asveikau 4y ago
Mugging isn't a good analogy also because software attacks, once possible, can be automated and distributed widely, are "wormable", and mugging is harder to do at scale.
- staticassertion 4y agoYes I hate analogies.
- asveikau 4y agoI was going to say a new virus emerging was a good example. In both cases: We know they are theoretically possible. We cannot say for sure when they'll emerge. Once they emerge, they can spread by themselves and become common. I guess the place it doesn't hold up is that in the exploit case, they're intentionally engineered, and for a virus, well there's the Wuhan bioweapon conspiracy theory but no, it's more like random mutations cause it.