IS KANSAS CITY READY FOR CYBER WARFARE?!?!

Of course not.

However . . .

While we might not confront direct attacks from Vlad and his gang of Russkies . . . Locals might still suffer some hard to predict collateral damage. 

Here's the word . . .

"American computers could still be compromised in collateral damage from Russian attacks on Ukrainian systems, as they have been in the past. In 2017, for example, Russian military-intelligence hackers sent malware known as NotPetya into Ukrainian computer networks. As the infection spread, a small U.S. hospital system lost the use of every Windows machine in its arsenal, and dozens, if not hundreds, of other hospitals were hamstrung when a widely used transcription service for electronic medical records went down. Any company that does business in Ukraine—and any person or business doing business with that company—could be vulnerable to this sort of collateral damage . . . “No one really fully understands how the internet interconnects and operates together at some sort of macro level, so being able to map out all the possible permutations of how something might have an impact is essentially impossible ahead of time.”

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NATO said last year that multiple low-scale attacks could create a reason to retaliate.

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