But we do have information, and knowledge is power. Money is an intermediary.
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cabbage@piefed.social 5 weeks agoWe don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.
If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)
For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
cabbage@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Information here is public.
That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Whew, good to know!