Reply to post: Re: FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubt

Ukraine invasion: This may be the quiet before the cyber-storm, IT staff warned

W.S.Gosset

Re: FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubt

> Most companies will never be the target of destructive military software implants.

Target? No. Correct.

Hit anyway by wild-released malware? Costlessly spraying itself at everything it can find and hitting anything it lands on? Extremely possible.

Malware is more usually blunderbuss, not sniper. It's a lot easier to write "stupid" hit-everything code than it is to write "smart" target-selecting code.

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