Before we discussed how important security was, we got insurance, we made libraries and products, we used compliance software, etc. Except how honest were we about all that stuff? How much risk was actually in the air, and what was keeping us accountable on security in either direction of over or under-investment?

Now a reckoning is here. The potential to be attacked might actually translate to being attacked.

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areoform 5 hours ago | parent [-]

People have died due to ransomware attacks on hospitals. Powerplants have been attacked. Stuxnet and industrial control malware exists.

What will the AI do that hasn't been tried before?

	▲	ak39 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Quite correct with that question. I believe the universal answer is: incompetent malicious actors are now capable too. Which implies the pool from which to draw the intersection between capable and malicious has grown. (That's my reading)