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Assume that there is at least one attack per century, and a successful attack will end life. Therefore, you need a failure rate less than 1 in a million to survive a million centuries.
Every orgainism you see has is the result of an unbroken chain of non-extinction that stretches back some 4 billion years. The rate of complete failure for living systems is not known - but it appears to have been extremely low so far.
Time compression did not start recently. (Well, it did, once you account for time compression.)
Bacteria have limited technological capabilities.