Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by RangerScience on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:44AM
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Yes!
Diversity. All systems have failure modes (current fav: utility monsters).
By combining multiple systems, you limit the severity of a failure of any one system. All participating systems must be in a failure mode for the overall systems to be in a failure mode.
If the Supreme Court were elected, it would suffer from basically the same failure modes as other elected offices, and would be able to provide a systemic durability against those failure modes.
Diversity. All systems have failure modes (current fav: utility monsters).
By combining multiple systems, you limit the severity of a failure of any one system. All participating systems must be in a failure mode for the overall systems to be in a failure mode.
If the Supreme Court were elected, it would suffer from basically the same failure modes as other elected offices, and would be able to provide a systemic durability against those failure modes.