They may be onto something with this Metaverse idea. They should be encouraged, it'll make identification and elimination of the mentally infirm that much easier. Perhaps they can be programmed to jump en masse off a cliff? Think how much work that'll save the gene removal squads!

Just be thankful scientists were able to adapt adrenochrome to be safe for use by Gentiles, or the death count from COVID would've been way higher!

Yes, but where do you get them if it costs too much to mine them profitably?

. . . and our electric grid can handle the load when weather conditions are like that!

One of the requirements is that there be a continuing (if increasingly difficult to obtain) supply of new blockchains to be added and used, if I understood what the crypto bros have been trying to tell everybody. No new blockchains means no more opportunity for growth. With the inherent value of a blockchain being, what, zero? Yeah, there's a solid investment for people in search of a tax write-off.

Fox News and YouTube? Seriously?

If you want to be an idiot, fine. Don't act like you think the rest of us are. Keep your alternative facts and your alternative news sources to yourself. This is Slashdot. We're into real facts.

" . . . well, that was easy."

Inter arma, enim silent leges.

Um, that's the violent, drunk Sheriff, to you.

Think about it: to break into a secure system, you have to be smarter than the guy that secures that system. To secure the system, you have to be smarter than all the guys trying to break in.

To make money selling security software, you just have to be smarter than a PHB.

Enough to stop looking for the modern Cosmologic Constant, a.k.a., "dark" matter?

The code was probably manually installed. A sysadmin (or higher) probably manually redacted the logs after initial installation from USB drive. After that, it was just a matter of maintaining the exploit, updating it with tools from the modern malware tool set, custom tailored to the security of the carefully-managed victim set.

Just guessing - but zero "in the wild" instances is sort of telling . . .

I didn't say "all", and I didn't specify automotive manufacture. But ... does the gearshift knob or the vanity chrome have to be manufactured to withstand shearing forces or heat-induced spalling? Think of all the non-critical bits that give a new car that new car smell . . . and that'll still bring an assembly line to a crashing halt if they're not available.

Where would the put the breakroom? Union rules says there has to be a breakroom.

Uh, if the accepted security practices of the early 2000's would have been more than enough to detect and counter this particular threat (and they would've been), I'd have mentioned restoring from DLT as a valid corrective measure. Come to think of it . . .