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by: Don Y - Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC

On 2/24/2022 11:35 PM, Fred Bloggs wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/tech/russia-ukraine-us-sanctions-cyberattacks/index.html

There may, actually, be an (long term) upside to such attacks.

(cyber)Security always seems to be an afterthought in many designs.
Even the internet protocols assumed benevolent actors.

Perhaps, if a few businesses/industries incur significant losses,
they may realize this is as costly as leaving the "cash register"
unattended! (even moreso as the "cash register" has limits on how
much it can contain but a cyber attack can expose *every* holding
and asset in a company -- even "trivial" things like customer lists!)

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