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No, cash does not. There is no equivalent to issuing one command to a botnet and collecting a hundred thousand people's wallets. Cash has other problems, which is why bank and Visa exist, but there's no zero-day exploit equivalent.

It's one of the reasons computer security is so hard. What in the real world would be a minor weakness that really is unlikely to ever be exploited is in the computer world an invitation for a bad actor to "SELECT * FROM private_customer_data" and be walking away with everything you own before the alerting system you probably don't have and probably aren't paying attention to can even go off.



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