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We're quickly heading toward the age of the first Virtual WMD. The implications can be as wide as your imagination, but possibly worse than existing WMDs.
I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.
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We're quickly heading toward the age of the first Virtual WMD. The implications can be as wide as your imagination, but possibly worse than existing WMDs.
I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.
The scary thing about this is: Stuxnet is one of the "most sophisticated" pieces of malware we have discovered up until now . Who knows what kinds of software are still out there quietly doing their thing in the shadows.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/03/16/russia-ha...
The same was also reported by MI5, Europol and of course within Ukraine.
I've been arguing about this for the last three days. Mostly around the reason that "complexity" is not strictly the same thing as "sophistication" when it comes to software. Noobs will conflate the two, but experienced programmers will agree that -- just to illustrate my point -- some code which solves a complex problem in a very clever way while also being very clean and easy to maintain will be considered strictly…
It would be impressive if it was the work of a teenager but it's not.
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I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.
Think of controllers for say a dam, or an autopilot system in a jet.
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I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.
Think of controllers for say a dam, or an autopilot system in a jet.
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Well, to be fair, Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon and wants to wipe out Israel.
To be fair, Iran is not trying to build a nuclear weapon, as it has been proven again and again by the thorough inspections and controls allowed by the JCPOA agreement, which the US have just undermined and probably killed for good.
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I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.
Presumably the person you replied to is including the potential takeover of nuclear weapons by terrorist hackers, etc.