From: | Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU> |
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Subject: | Backups and the Crash of '29 |
Date: | Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:37:04 -0500 |
important fact about backups: they're useless if you can't read them. It
really doesn't matter how recent your backups are if you can't use any of
your computers. And the ``virus'' made anything on the net effectively
unusable.
Besdies, there are too many things happening in real time, banks, stock
markets, and the like; glitch them for an hour and the economies of entire
nations can go bye-bye. Redundant systems are great, but if your redundant
systems go out with the mains, forget it. This does assume that they're on
the net in the first place. Banks today they're not, or they're behind
firewalls; by the turn of the millenium most major banks will be connected
to the Internet in some fashion. And I'll bet whoever was clueful enough to
write the ``virus'' capable of what caused the Crash of '29 was clueful
enough to give it the ability to crash through firewalls.
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