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castis on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

> we are taking cyber missile hits

A better analogy would be 'mocked cyber mass protests' seeing as how no infrastructure will need to be rebuilt after this passes.

etherealflux on Oct 21, 2016 [–]

Thankfully, we don't leave in the Star Trek universe, where hacking a computer causes it to explode in a shower of white-hot shrapnel.

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