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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by bombcar on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:04PM (#32320472)
Anyone who's studied NTSB reports knows this is almost always how they go; a single failure that is no problem becomes one because of some other issue that doesn't normally happen, or couldn't happen because normally a third thing is always done ...
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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by stouset on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:21PM (#32322425)
Same with tons of security incidents in general. It's the "swiss cheese model" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model).
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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:38PM (#32324591)
And when it becomes organisationally normalised that one layer of safety isn't working and the remaining ones are relied upon, then that's more like the subject of Normal Accidents [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by Bud on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:21PM (#32321632)
There are several very interesting books about this, yes. Air disasters are fascinating to read about.
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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by brazzy on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:55PM (#32324186)
A series of very good, detailed article about air disasters over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/e6n80m/pl...
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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by imtringued on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:02AM (#32329327)
Stable systems don't break because something went wrong, they break because everything went wrong.
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