Single Point of Weakness is in the Works.Thank you Major Tom.

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 11:15 PM 4/13/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>> Strike.  Learn to use STANDARD TIME FORMATS, you pathetic ex-con
>> sellout journalist.  DD/MM/YYYY is an antiquated european format.
>
>...and MM/DD/YYYY is an antiquitated American format.

Indeed.  And ambiguous.  I always write out the month, which
confuses americans, and telling them that its ambiguous otherwise
just confuses them more :-)   I have settled for "I used to work
with Europeans".

>You won't believe how many people who should know what IT security is
>about still live somewhere between 1900 and 1950.

Or use master-keyed locks...

>> > But Norton also describes the power grid's fractal network of
>
>> Someone teach this child about fractals.
>
>Why fractals?

Because little Kevin used that big word.  Isn't he cute?  Too bad
its inappropriate and gratuitous.

>One comment I would have is that the growing intelligence of equipment
>should mandate fail-safe operation, refusal to perform commands that
would
>put the node and its surrounding area to dangerous situation.

Yes, we can all afford sanity checks in our code now.  I would
caution that sometimes you need to override the sanity checks,
e.g., to cause a flood to save the dam.   Note that overriding
will often require you to go through the same control system ---not
some big red lever you manually pull.

Can't wait until Detroit sells Joe Sixpack a drive by wire car
that thinks for him when it shouldn't, to say nothing of failing
digitally (ie catastrophically).

Eg, it's
>better to cause traffic jam by setting all lights to red (or, even
better,
>blinking yellow, which means here that the traffic lights aren't
>controlled)

All-red stops everyone, forever, or until they start to think.  Blinking
red is what you mean.
Blinking yellow isn't in the official lexicon AFAIK.

All-black = blinking red but often taken as green, leading to red
asphalt.

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