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This seems vastly worse than "kings who were not professional soldiers" or "...not good governors". If the minister had never done cyber-security work, I would
by Bartweiss 8y ago
This seems vastly worse than "kings who were not professional soldiers" or "...not good governors".
If the minister had never done cyber-security work, I would understand. If he had never done any kind of technical computing at all, I would basically understand.
But to have never used a computer? That's like administration by a king who has never seen uncooked food or left his palace. Past a certain point you have so few referents that expert advice becomes unintelligible. There's precedent here too, but it's the precedent of puppet kings and court intrigues - leaders who either do nothing at all or make their decisions without regard for any concrete facts.
- analogmemory 8y agoMy mom still thinks her computer will get a virus (all by itself) if she leaves it running when she's not around. Even with my explanations. So she shuts it off completely every time she's done. I can imagine her running a cyber security company and telling her employees to shut down the servers when they leave for the night ;)
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoI guess that if her computer does end up being part of a botnet she would at least be mitigating damage by doing that :)
- analogmemory 8y agoYeah it's why I stopped trying to convince her otherwise. At most an attacker would have 60 minutes a day to do something :P
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoAnd one of the reasons no one competent will allow her to run a cyber security company is that she disregards the advice of people more knowledgeable than she is, not because she doesn't have a deep knowledge of how computers work.