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by f38zf5vdt 1805 days ago
That solves ransomware, which is bottom of the barrel in the hacker world. The reason talk about this is so much about _defense_ lately is because if people as untalented as ransomware operators can make it into US corporate and government infrastructure, imagine how deep in state-employed hackers must be. In the past decade US government infrastructure has been deeply penetrated multiple times, with catastrophic consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...