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 3title: Firesales
 4subtitle: Are they really possible?
 5date: 2019-11-30
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 7
 8So you watched Die Hard 4.0, and you now have the burning question: "Are
 9firesales really possible? Can someone actually cripple a nation through
10coordinated cyber attacks?"
11Or maybe you never watched Die Hard 4.0, and you wonder what a firesale
12is. In any case, this blog post will serve as an analysis of this
13hypothetical idea, exploring its process and its feasibility. 
14
15### So, what _is_ a firesale?
16
17To begin with, it isn't even an actual term used in information
18security -- it was coined in Die Hard 4.0.