Traditional finance can freeze and reverse funds though. North Korea can hack a bank but they can’t get that money out of the country.
replyYes and no. I think parent is moving towards an interesting point.
replyWhy haven’t these been operationalized? NK resorted to social engineering in their latest bitcoin heist despite there been a thousand holes in the system.
To me, this points towards these holes are near impossible for humans and traditional tooling to find and Pandora’s box has been opened, or that these holes are not open to abuse in practice.
'Could allow a local user to gain root'
replyI guess the answer is that in most applications you are able to keep most users off the box altogether.
We humans are vulnerable to anthrax or sarin as well, but countries exhibit restraint in using such agents, because retaliation would be gruesome. Having someone going full rogue with cyberattacks could even unite the US and China temporarily in order to whack them.
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