[cryptarch]

It's more akin to manufacturing portable arms factories, that can also replicate themselves.

Lose one and you're SOL.

[votepaunchy]

SOL except that the arms can be rendered useless with a simple update in defenses.

[rxhernandez]

Except it could be a simple update after substantial damage has been done.

[ng12]

A simple update applied to a few hundred thousand of people, most of which don't work for you or know enough to care.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

Yeah, and when the US power grid is offline for three days due to latest NSA cyber toy to get out of fucking Fort Meade, I'm sure the priority of those people stuck in an elevator or families watching their loved ones die due to a life support system failure will be to fucking update Windows XP.

[ams6110]

If that were to happen it would be more the fault of power companies that do not have critical systems well protected. Fort Meade is hardly the only entity developing these sorts of exploits, so you have to expect them. The patch for this has been out for a while now.