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by natrius 3273 days ago
It's not like a power outage. It's more like a power surge that's somehow crafted to exploit every engineering flaw in every surge protector that well-funded state actors have piled up over the years. We would not recover from that in days.
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Not even Google, in all their might and splendour, can reliably deliver software to all the versions of a platform they themselves created.

I find it hard to believe that even the most competent villain will work out a way to hit 10% of the devices out there, let alone everything.

Google doesn't use their client's bandwidth and connectivity to help them.
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for Google?