Whew, good to know!
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cabbage@piefed.social 3 days 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.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 days ago
Angelusz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But we do have information, and knowledge is power. Money is an intermediary.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 days 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.