Re:Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy
by mikestew on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:51PM
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It was deliberately built without redundancy, because they thought they could achieve perfection
For some reason this reminds me of the Twitter conversation when it was discovered that T-Mobile Austria was storing passwords in plain text: "What if you get pwned?" "What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good?"
Yeah, right up to the point that it isn't "amazingly good". Or one of the stays on your bridge suffers a catastrophe.
For some reason this reminds me of the Twitter conversation when it was discovered that T-Mobile Austria was storing passwords in plain text: "What if you get pwned?" "What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good?"
Yeah, right up to the point that it isn't "amazingly good". Or one of the stays on your bridge suffers a catastrophe.