Re:Ask HN: Is your org preparing for Russian hacking as part...
by samstave on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:56AM
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I'm surprised that cyber-attacks are not as prevalent as one may expect these days...
Cyber-war is asymmetric and cheap. And our infra is weak.
Sure, there are walled moats in FAANG but not so much in social infra (power, banking, commerce, etc)
The biggest will be when one channel of general social discourse is fully taken down. Such as slack (commerce discourse) or reddit or FB (anything people generally communicate on)
HN going down will also be a bad thing, just because of the tech-heavy user-base HN users are.
@dang, how many registered users are on HN.
Regardless, whatever that number is - its a really big % of the overall tech population.
Cyber-war is asymmetric and cheap. And our infra is weak.
Sure, there are walled moats in FAANG but not so much in social infra (power, banking, commerce, etc)
The biggest will be when one channel of general social discourse is fully taken down. Such as slack (commerce discourse) or reddit or FB (anything people generally communicate on)
HN going down will also be a bad thing, just because of the tech-heavy user-base HN users are.
@dang, how many registered users are on HN.
Regardless, whatever that number is - its a really big % of the overall tech population.