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80,000 planes use the same bolts to secure the engine pylons to the wing. It is found that the bolt can sheer in cold weather due to a casting defect. This does
by 542354234235 5y ago
80,000 planes use the same bolts to secure the engine pylons to the wing. It is found that the bolt can sheer in cold weather due to a casting defect. This does not cause a catastrophic failure because the aircraft are designed in such a way that an individual compromise will not bring down the entire system. Bank vault doors don’t open to the street for a reason. If your entire system is relying on the security of that one vault door, you have already failed. If you are storing sensitive data on millions of users in plaintext, you have already failed.
- salawat 5y agoEven plaintext can be secure with the right other measures. Air gapped in a physically secured, access controlled location, with all egress/exit points covered by sufficiently rigorous security measures? You're fine. Encryption introduces it's own SPOF's. If you'very never had a power failure in the middle of a key rotation, you've never been bitten back by your attempt at securing everything with cryptography. Or worse, corrupted by sketchy hardware. Defense in depth, and proper threat modeling is key. There is also the very real question of "Do you really need that Internet connected anyway?"