Russia will release half-monkey, half-man hybrid shock troops; they'll be dancing in the aisles of Walmart by next month
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They already tried shock troops with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Wasn't this all predicted by The X-Files?
Ah yes, viruses that are impossible to contain to a specific target. Sure, I buy that. /s
I get the biological vector - it's scary. But a cyber attack? Meh.
A coordinated and effective cyber attack could cripple infrastructure, it's actually a thing to be concerned about. There's a reason we banned certain Chinese chip manufacturers products from being used within government hardware. If you think there's not an actual threat you're not paying attention.
A coordinated and effective cyber attack could cripple infrastructure
Could. But in reality wouldn't.
Russia has been at open, kinetic war with Ukraine for over a year now. Before that they've been the aggressors since 2014 Crimea annexation. Russia is one of the worlds leading "cyber powers". Cyber has done very, very little damage in Ukraine.
Sure, there is risk. But it's not "extinction level risk" like a biological vector. There's never been a cyber attack that has closed the global economy for 2+ years. Cyber attacks just don't scale that way. But viruses like COVID do. We know.
The US is well known to use this as a vector for attacks. Intercept network hardware in delivery, insert hardware backdoors and then have delivered as if nothing happened.
So, only fair they're concerned others might do it.
Cyber is way more likely that biological...
Also way less likely to cause trouble on the scale that biological warfare is.
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