Poll: Hacker lets foreign agents and mafia into 100s millions of PCs

Started by Mr. Bigglesworth, February 28, 2014, 02:45:29 PM

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Mr. Bigglesworth

Hypothetical:

A hacker, thinking he is taking over the world, puts a back door into the commonly used software of company X. Before long it is used by agents of Iran, North Korea, Russian mafia, anybody, to use the computers of 100s of millions of people. The infiltrators now have what all the companies were working on, what all the researchers, students, everyone was doing.

How seriously is it treated by law enforcement?
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Staggerwing

Easy one, if he works for the juggernaut of Redmond. Extrapolate even further...

If that someone worked  for the CDC, or United airlines, or AT&T, or the FBI, what difference does it make? They put a poison in the water supply, they sabotaged a cancer cure, they caused a lot of traffic fatalities, they allowed a killer to go free, they signed off on an unsafe bridge or firetrap building.
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