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Bernardo de La Paz

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10. Read the article for the first time. You are addressing a different problem in a trivial way
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:20 PM
Mar 2021

Last edited Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:58 PM - Edit history (1)

As to what you address, which is cyber intrusions, total shutdown that you suggest is exactly what the adversaries want to achieve.

You would hand it to them. You would shut down the power grid, shut down internet commerce, shut down the phone system, shut down medical information systems, shut down the water supply (a water plant was poisonously intruded cybernetically last month).

In the 21st century your solution is a big switch to shut down vast swaths of systems. No sense of cyber defense, no sense of graceful degradation, no sense of fail safe.

Just catastrophic shutdowns.



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