This feels like a very credible opening to a modern-day Terminator reboot. Sometime over the Christmas-NYE week we will learning that NYSE and other exchanges have been compromised, as well as all public-facing utilities...

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binlog an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The difference is that financial exchanges are already attacked every second and spend orders of magnitude more on security than random government websites.

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iAMkenough 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

hoping for erasure of all debt records

likely getting a corrupted stock market instead

maybe both?

	▲	nxobject 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What if the paperclip maximizer goes "if I manipulate the markets to send NVidia's share prize shooting up, I'll be able to make so many more paperclips?" After all, if swarms of agents can target a wiki, there's plenty else they can swarm.
	▲	BLKNSLVR an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Asked for Fight Club, got The Big Short.