Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by qo32 on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:15PM
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pfft and then they come back up, like rebooting your machine. You can cause a temporary crash these days not a permanent shutdown. People just don't get how hyperconnected things are. Everyone takes a hit if there are shutdowns. The 2008 financial crisis was the first demonstrator. Things are just too big to fail.
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Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by sincerely on Friday November 16, 2018 @06:05PM
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Wasnt there a shipping logistics company whose network got hit by ransomware that shut down like 40% of shipping ports worldwide for like 72 hours? that’s serious economic damage, even if they eventually got backups etc running