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by mcguire 1779 days ago
Since you asked,...

The Kantian categorical imperative goes something like, "act as if the basis of your actions would be made universal law." What happens if everyone conducts denial of service and ransom attacks against anyone they perceive as a legitimate target?

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/growing-threat-ransomware...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ruthless-cyber-gang-behind-...

2 comments

We'd love in the world that we live in now. Iran's centrifuges have some experience with that.

I think it's kind of neat that we're waging war via bit flipping instead of meat flipping, let's call it progress.

We'd probably have a society that is really good at building safe redundant software services such that this is no longer a threat (;