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I love the idea of the martians having invaded earth, wiped out humanity, but when they opened their first pdf file, got all their files crypto-locked. A modern
by cm2187 4y ago
I love the idea of the martians having invaded earth, wiped out humanity, but when they opened their first pdf file, got all their files crypto-locked. A modern version of War of the Worlds.
- brookst 4y agoLove it. Some kind of polymorphic AI-enabled malware that can adapt to any system that analyzes it. Alternative scenario: the malware wiped out humanity millennia ago, but is laying dormant in PDFs, just waiting for the aliens to try to interpret these digital relics of a long-dead civilization.