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Ex Garmin employee here. Some of their infrastructure supports emergency response. Hard to know how much of what went offline, but if /that/ goes down, people d
by blackboxlogic 6y ago
Ex Garmin employee here. Some of their infrastructure supports emergency response. Hard to know how much of what went offline, but if /that/ goes down, people die. On-call was not fun.
- blackboxlogic 6y agoAlso should note: the life-critical infrastructure was somewhat insolated from the rest of it.
- obmelvin 6y agosupposedly inReach wasn't included in the down time? Wonder if due to better infra or just highly (and rightfully so) prioritized once things went south
- blackboxlogic 6y agoChecking https://status.inreach.garmin.com/ https://status.inreach.garmin.com/ (oh the memories) Looks like the meat and potatoes held together! I'd credit segregated infrastructure and redundancy.
- Scoundreller 6y agoMost of it runs over Iridium, so I wonder how much IoT is really involved vs just being a different hardware front-end for Iridium services.
- obmelvin 6y agoAh, that would probably explain it. I was wondering if the actors wanted to avoid touching services that could impact peoples lives, due to that potentially leading to more motivated investigations. Possibly, but also could just be that it is largely a hardware front-end for Iridium's service.