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RE: Steecky Thoughts #5: ransomware bots – the scary future of Steemit [5min]
Been stewing on your idea for a bit. What you have described is feasible, no doubt. However, in this line of thought, wouldn't there always be a bigger whale? Meaning, someone higher in SP that could always flag the ransomware as malicious?
So the attacker just gets more SP to make their attack more feasible. But as some point, wouldn't the attacker acquire enough where it was more profitable to just hold the SP and gain interest?
Spread across multiple accounts? At what success rate? Say, 10%. Then 90% of the SP that could have been invested is just sitting there, could have been invested in one account to gain more.
This attack seems economically unlikely for me, I'd be curious to hear what others think.
thanks for taking the time pondering about it.
I think your that maybe it's not viable with an army of bots or at an X amount of SP.
but maybe with one bot. there should be a sweet spot to this attack where it's viable.
the sweet spot needs consider your own SP, the victim's SP, the amount you demand.
all theoretical of course but who knows.
This kind of attack can be thwarted by an "upvote police" where whales or dolphins or whatever band together.
I do think it's needs more thought by those who knows best, the devs. to make sure it's economically not viable or if there is a why to stop it.