This is part of a series dedicated to what we regard as “First Principles.” No set of principles, in our view, is more important than the notion that distributed networks are more robust than centralized networks, and that this applies to a military command-and-control network no more or less than it applies to a suburban […]
Bob Garfield began the segment, Assessing the True Threat of Cyberwar, on the WNYC radio show On the Media, on Friday, August 10, 2012, Last year when a water pump in Springfield, Illinois burned out, a water district employee noticed that the system had been accessed remotely from somewhere inside Russia. Two days later, a […]
9-1-1 Should Never Give Me A Busy Signal. By Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch. Last night I got word that my parents had witnessed a tragic accident while driving in Northern California. I won’t get into the details, but suffice to say one person was killed and others were left bleeding, in various states of unconsciousness. […]
Just read a remarkable piece on Network Weaving about hub-and-spoke networks. From Connected Customers: [The author, Valdis Krebs, had discussed attending a professional conference at a hotel]. The only negative with the event was the conference hotel’s awful WiFi service — and their response to it. Hotels are used to dealing with disconnected customers — hotel […]
James Glanz had yet another excellent piece in Thursday’s Times about the Iraqi electrical grid. Glanz – by himself and with co-authors – has been keeping an eye on the Iraqi electrcal power situation. We assume that if he’s doing any reporting or writing afer the sun sets, the Times has gotten him a generator. […]