Google cloud is down so people can't turn on their AC or get open their "smart" locks to let people into the house etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077971 …https://twitter.com/jDantastic/status/1135282856085852160 …
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By the way, when I go into a house with a Google Home device, I'm cool. I just yell at it about the Youtube recommendation algorithm and how lousy the help pages are for 2FA security keys for Gmail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I understand that. See full thread for the point about how we are coupling risks. People should look up “Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City of New York.”https://twitter.com/vaishnavi/status/1135338700093530113 …
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For anyone who knows anything about control systems that has been obvious for a long time. Having been involved early in my career in systems reliability work for critical systems it is obvious that similar precautions are not applied to the highly interconnected infrastructure
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Fire sale ...
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Is this so different from being connected to the power grid and having an outage? I feel we stopped being self-sufficient nodes a very long time before Google. The remarkable thing is how we now see any reliance on society with distrust - perhaps for good reason, but still...
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Adama's Law: If it can kill you, don't connect it to the Internet.
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Well professor Nest can kill you, by turning up the heat and locking you in, on a 112F day. It is a long shot but...
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Redundancies: AIRGAP
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So say we all.
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This is why distributed systems are so important. Hedera is a perfect example of a network that will be able to handle this (it is scheduled to open to wider public access this summer after the community testing is complete).
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