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Imagine if they wanted to use this for a terrorist attack, or sold the data to someone who did. If they set up a bot net to log into as many bank accounts as p
by learc83 12y ago
Imagine if they wanted to use this for a terrorist attack, or sold the data to someone who did.
If they set up a bot net to log into as many bank accounts as possible and transfer money around (even if it were just between a users own accounts or accounts already setup for transfer), banks would basically be forced to shutdown internet banking until they could come up with a solution. The economic losses would be tremendous--it would take forever to sort out the mess.
- smt88 12y agoYou've seen GoldenEye too many times. Evil is selfish, not indiscriminate. Terrorists generally want control over some general area (or their own lives). They don't want to destroy human society. Society is what gives them food, shelter, and all the other things people like to have. What you're describing would take not just one person who wanted to destroy all of human society, but quite a few of them.
- learc83 12y ago>What you're describing would take not just one person who wanted to destroy all of human society, but quite a few of them. Woah...I'm not talking about something destroying all of human society, I'm talking about a group of people who would like to harm specific countries economically--of which there are more than a few. Moving money around like what I'm talking about would result in billions of dollars lost. Worst case scenario a stock market crash followed by a recession, not the end of civilization.