re: #9 silverdolphin
Hackers and ransom
Russia-tied hackers threaten to leak Georgia Trump trial docs if ransom isn’t paid: report
US pharmacy outage triggered by ‘Blackcat’ ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say
The Georgia trial could be stopped. Our healthcare system is hobbled because people cannot easily get prescriptions filled nor have insurance pay for it.
And now we have the possibility that autonomous AI could be capable of doing even more. From the abstract:
The pharmacy hack is causing quite a few pharmacies, including the one at the Kroger I was at the other day, to not be able to give meds out for customers. It’s also starting to affect my wife’s job, who does medical billing.