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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

    Prepandemic, I wrote a lot about our digital infrastructure vulnerabilities—like the ransomware that crippled the pipeline. For the Atlantic, I tried to explain the why and the connection: tightly coupled, networked systems are prone to cascading failures. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/05/ransomware-attack-network-pipeline-hack/618893/ …pic.twitter.com/wXIyJdHNMP

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

        (I had an earlier version of this for my newsletter). We have this in multiple realms: complex systems with significant fragilities and vulnerabilities where we treat near-misses (like 2003 SARS) as things we can now ignore, rather than the alarm that should get us moving to fix.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2021

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        Ireland. Hospital services being canceled.https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1393116457672785923 …

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        Irish health services shut IT system after "significant ransomware attack" https://bbc.in/3bpvT0x 
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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 May 2021

        On the news that the ransomware actors behind the Colonial Pipeline shutdown had received $90 million from 47 victims in Bitcoin before shutting down: As I say it in my article, a lot of realities about Bitcoin etc. are not well-understood because it's been let be. May not last.pic.twitter.com/qSk4pOEaf9

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      1. Paul Dodd‏ @PaulDod71219642 16 May 2021
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        Yes! Other analog networks such as supply chains and Just In Time manufacturing are just as vulnerable, as shown by the pandemic, chip shortages & BREXIT. Combine the two as in the Colonial Pipeline hack and you have a fine stew. Vulnerabilities have outstripped security.

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      2. Paul Dodd‏ @PaulDod71219642 16 May 2021
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        Don't believe increased sentences will do anything, as you say, most people think they will not be caught. Very few hackers are caught, especially the ones selling the hacking as a service. 1/ international treaties against hacking. 2/more responsibility for sw/hw suppliers 3/

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      3. Paul Dodd‏ @PaulDod71219642 16 May 2021
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        Continued 3/proactive scanning by say the FBI and issuance of e.g. "security tickets" to companies. 4/ Banning non-individual default pw. BTW, my new router I received last week had admin/admin as user/pw 🤔 5/ Mandating security update possibilities for hw (routers/printers/TV)

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      1. G. D. Burns‏ @vycegripp 16 May 2021
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        What school did you get your computer science degree from?

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      2. Alexa Scientista Data‏ @Scientista_Data 16 May 2021
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        Excellent article Indeed best solution is likely "better regulation up and down technical stack, so that negative externalities become internal issues for companies, thus responsible for solving the problems they create." Unfortunately this issue is prevalent in other areas 1/

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      2. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 16 May 2021
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        …and *all* complex systems are tightly coupled

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      3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 16 May 2021
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        Cf. https://how.complexsystems.fail 

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