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Or they didn't understand the degree of consolidation in the industry. Its quite possible they hit the pipeline operators without understanding the level of ser
by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Or they didn't understand the degree of consolidation in the industry. Its quite possible they hit the pipeline operators without understanding the level of service outage they would cause.
- khafra 5y agoAntifragility advocates might say the occasional ransomware attack on infrastructure could be a good thing, in the long run, if it promotes a more resilient, less just-in-time based economy. Like Amazon's chaos monkey, but for whole economic sectors.
- bluGill 5y agoJust in time is good for the economy, however like everything else there are downsides that need to be managed.
- ______- 5y agoGood comment about this very thing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27099862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27099862 > It's just a variation of the Normalization of Deviance. See this[1] short talk by Richard Cook for a very good explanation of the mechanism that causes the transition from "robust" to "superfluous". [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
- 20after4 5y agoThe chaos monkey(1) originated at Netflix. 1. https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/