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Post by brucearmstrong65 on Jul 8, 2016 10:21:53 GMT -6
New York Magazine (June 13-26, 2016) featured an article by Reeves Wiedeman entitled "The Big Hack: The day cars drove themselves into walls and the hospitals froze." The article is now available online at nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/the-hack-that-could-take-down-nyc.html . The basic premise is that hackers take down many systems we're somewhat to totally dependent on in our daily lives - newer cars can't be drive, hospitals can't access patient records, the police can't run background checks, and so on. Essentially, it's Y2K done deliberately by hackers. Any thoughts? |
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Post by kaijafon on Jul 9, 2016 11:03:31 GMT -6
I kinda hope they do. I really want this whole fake system with all the corruption to completely and utterly crash and burn until there isn't a trace of it left.
yeah, I'm in a mood today. Still reeling with all that has gone on this week. Knowing that even in my own home, I'm denied my God given rights.
sorry.... stopping now...
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Post by 9idrr on Jul 9, 2016 15:42:59 GMT -6
"hospitals can't access patient records"
Obviously, you don't realize that this is a feature, not a bug. The more patients/voters/drains on the system that die off, the fewer there are to use the services. Of course, this also means that there're not as many workin' to feed the system so those workers will just have to "contribute" more, but that's okay, 'cause it's "for the children" don't you know.
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Post by papaof2 on Jul 14, 2016 22:45:47 GMT -6
There's been concern for some time about the SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems that control many industrial processes - including parts of the grid.
Most power plants have their control systems isolated from the world, but you can guess that there are hackers out looking for anything that gives them power. They've held hospital records "hostage" until a "ransom" was paid in bitcoin.
There's nothing to prevent someone at a power plant from doing something stupid such as bringing in a thumb drive of PAW fiction to share - but that drive is infected and that infection gets on one of the power plant computers and then finds the SCADA system. It would all happen silently until the generators started running away or the load shedding relays started clicking as they shut off power on the lines out of that power plant. What if the affected plant is Niagara Falls or Boulder? Think maybe a lot of people would be in the dark?
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Post by pbbrown0 on Dec 28, 2016 9:25:27 GMT -6
Systems are designed and implemented by humans. Humans, from time to time, make mistakes. Therefore as systems become more complex, they become more likely to include design flaws that are missed by the humans who are implementing them. Also the increasing scope and complexity of systems increases the probability of complex inter-dependencies.
The long and the short of it is that we are rapidly building ourselves toward a higher probability of more serious systemic failure.
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