Yes indeed. It doesn’t look good for the IT business at all. I have, as someone deeply involved in the security side of things, considered cashing everything I have in and bailing. It’s too bloody stressful keeping the snowflakes covered in piss alive (google “programming sucks” for context of that comment).
There’s a bigger one on the cards as well. While this is confined to a single machine we’re actually running short on viable crypto tech at the moment. The cat and mouse game that is played against ciphers, key exchange and transport layer protocols is currently letting the cat doing some serious catching up...