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0 pointsstill_grokking2y ago0 comments

> When a server crashes, the normal result is that it costs money.

IT security isn't only about "not crashing servers".

> When an airliner crashes, hundreds of people die.

I've just showed examples where likely hundreds of people died because of missing impact evaluation on IT systems.

I think this is related.

As long as people don't see this nothing will change.

So yes, maybe my context switch is a little bit drastic. But this was the intend: To show similarities in outcomes and at the same time the hubris that things aren't taken seriously in the one case where they are taken very very serous in the other case, regardless of identical outcomes.

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K0balt2y ago

I’m with you on the impact, especially going forward, of overall data infrastructure integrity. Failures in this realm will increasingly put the well being of people at stake.

My objection was more of the “catastrophic IT failure rarely causes direct physical harm, whereas catastrophic failures in aviation almost always results in fatalities” variety.

But yes, data infrastructure integrity is definitely an issue that must be treated as critical, and increasingly, as a life safety issue in some cases.

Although I feel like referencing self harm is not really in good faith here , because if that was a rational connection we should also be talking about treating interpersonal relations and good manners as a life safety issue in the same way that we regulate aviation.

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