> It was, by all appearances, purely human error — a few bad keystrokes that demonstrated the fragility of a vast set of interconnected networks in which one mi

> It was, by all appearances, purely human error — a few bad keystrokes that demonstrated the fragility of a vast set of interconnected networks in which one mistake can cause a cascade of unintended consequences. Cute. It's always those bad keystrokes. If only these crowdstrike employees worked on their good keystrokes that morning. I blame management. > Russian hackers working on behalf of Vladimir V. Putin bring down hospital systems across the United States. In others, China’s military hackers trigger chaos, shutting down water systems and electric grids to distract Americans from an invasion of Taiwan. ... Among Washington’s cyberwarriors, the first reaction on Friday morning was relief that this wasn’t a nation-state attack. For two years now, the White House, the Pentagon and the nation’s cyberdefenders have been trying to come to terms with “Volt Typhoon,” a particularly elusive form of malware that China has put into American critical infrastructure. So we have cyberwarriors and cyberdefenders? And the russians, china, etc have 'hackers'. If ever there was a doubt what the nytimes really is. > The fear is, in an election year, that the next digital meltdown may have a deeper political purpose. Oh dear. More bad keystrokes on the way? Did anyone glean anything of value from the article? There was a lot of words but no substance.