> Like you suddenly might starve to death because of a DDoS and your car won't start, and wars will break out! Oh my the sensationalism! Actually, given that m

> Like you suddenly might starve to death because of a DDoS and your car won't start, and wars will break out! Oh my the sensationalism! Actually, given that my new phone connection is VOIP-only, an attack that saturates or damages[1] the respective part of the network could block an emergency call and quite possibly lead to problems down the line. It's hard to estimate how much we actually depend on the internet nowadays. [1] "damages" as in "put critical infrastructure pieces temporarily out of function"