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Comparisons to physical security are always wrong when it comes to hacking. When you’re connected to the internet the number of adversaries willing to try goes
by kortilla 3y ago
Comparisons to physical security are always wrong when it comes to hacking.
When you’re connected to the internet the number of adversaries willing to try goes up by probably 6 orders of magnitude. Not only that, many of them will be living in a regime where there is no possible way for them to get punished by doing it to you.
Ransomware brought significant amounts of income to the North Korean government.
These are not extreme hypotheticals. They’ve shut down fucking hospitals to shake down people for money. Once the opportunity is great enough, they’ll have no qualms stopping people’s cars from starting to ask for a little crypto currency.