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Antifragility advocates might say the occasional ransomware attack on infrastructure could be a good thing, in the long run, if it promotes a more resilient, le
by khafra 5y ago
Antifragility 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/