Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by magduf on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:54AM
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All you have to do is go look at various bridges across the US, and roads in urban areas too. The simple fact is that the US absolutely refuses to maintain or repair infrastructure. So we have bridges rusting apart and even collapsing sometimes with vehicles on them.
With a national attitude like that, random unexplained crashes of other critical systems shouldn't be a surprise.
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by Alex_Fragd on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:07AM
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>unexplained crashes were normal for the system
this only makes me more concerned
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:45AM
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It shouldn't really. If they're really common then everyone already knows how to deal with things when the system crashes, it isn't a big deal. What you need to worry about is what happens when the system that has never crashed and that everyone depends on and no one understands goes down.
"Operators reported that they did not suspect a cyber attack because unexplained crashes were normal for the system."
That exerpt comes from this report which was released two months ago.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694913.pdf
We're no longer in a time when Occams razor tells us that the giant radio active spike over the ocean is a nuclear weapons test. Now Occams razor tells us that every crash is simply due to bad hardware or (and sometimes both) a lack of funding.