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by monocasa 1774 days ago
Jimmy is only willing to spend less than he'd spend in the cost of games. Even with a large amount of Jimmys there might not be market without getting the cost of an individual attack low enough.

On the other hand, there for sure is a market for cloud based attacks, and nation states that can apply a stick to go along with the carrot of millions of dollars in "consulting fees".

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Especially as we move more key infrastructure into the cloud. If people start trusting these sorts of remote systems with things like financial data, the payoff of a clandestine compromise could be hundreds of billions of dollars.

Doubly true when you consider the history of Google working with the USG.