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> megabanks are offline for weeks at a time Yeah not going to happen. Might happen to government, but not banks. Banks are incentivized by profit, and being o
by Aperocky 5y ago
> megabanks are offline for weeks at a time
Yeah not going to happen. Might happen to government, but not banks.
Banks are incentivized by profit, and being offline pose extreme risk to profit. Government are just mostly self promoting bureaucracy until something goes really wrong, and then it's still the same bureaucracy.
- mikewarot 5y agoBanks are also incentivized by costs, both real and perceived. security is a perceived cost, easy to discount until it happens. This is why ATMs run very old operating systems, for example. Capitalism isn't magic pixie dust that makes everything good.