One doesn’t need arms and legs or any physical presence at all to do immense damage to society. Ransomware attacks cripple companies, hospitals, utilities, and

One doesn’t need arms and legs or any physical presence at all to do immense damage to society. Ransomware attacks cripple companies, hospitals, utilities, and governments on a regular basis. The US and Israel have demonstrated, in at least one instance, the ability to create computer viruses that can cause industrial hardware to physically destroy itself. Our world has been so completely integrated with digital technology that if it were disrupted in a large scale fashion it could easily result in millions of deaths. No power, no internet, and people lose access to heating/cooling, clean water, hospitals can’t run, food production is disrupted, money can’t be accessed, medicine can’t be produced, communication is cut, shipping and transportation of what goods do exist grinds to a halt. And that’s just in the world of malware, that doesn’t consider all the ways it could just inject enough discord into society that it doesn’t need to physically attack us, we will do it ourselves.