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>'...if IT systems make it easy and convenient.' Believe it or not, there are people working for these systems who are both willing and capable of making that
by incision 12y ago
>'...if IT systems make it easy and convenient.'
Believe it or not, there are people working for these systems who are both willing and capable of making that happen. Unfortunately, there's a trump card of paranoid ass-covering which routinely squashes such aspirations:
Terrorism
I worked with a transit agency was not just capable of sending texts, but had a surprisingly slick mobile-ready, web app for displaying realtime, animated schedules in 2008.
Someone got up in a meeting and said 'What if terrorists use that information?'
Today, six years later they don't have so much as a reliable API available to the public.
- furyg3 12y agoI wonder: If we would have known terrorists would target subway systems in the future, would we have abandoned their construction?