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title: Firesales
subtitle: Are they really possible?
date: 2019-11-30
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So you watched Die Hard 4.0, and you now have the burning question: "Are
firesales really possible? Can someone actually cripple a nation through
coordinated cyber attacks?"
Or maybe you never watched Die Hard 4.0, and you wonder what a firesale
is. In any case, this blog post will serve as an analysis of this
hypothetical idea, exploring its process and its feasibility. 

### So, what _is_ a firesale?

To begin with, it isn't even an actual term used in information
security -- it was coined in Die Hard 4.0.