Pithiness from Bruce Schneier: "I'm not worried about cyberwar, but I am worried about the proliferation of cyber weapons. Arms races are fundamentally destabilizing, especially when their development can be so easily hidden. I worry about cyberweapons being triggered by accident, cyberweapons getting into the wrong hands and being triggered on purpose, and the inability to reliability trace a cyberweapon leading to increased distrust. Plus, arms races are expensive."
Should we worry about cyberwar?
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Hackers stole iPhone 18 Pro schematics from Apple supplier Tata
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This $430 MacBook Pro once cost nearly $2,000
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Free up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life
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