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   scribe (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:52:27 JST scribe

   "Targets are everywhere." Bruce Schneier's short essay on the trust / vulnerability trade-off in global supply chains is a good explainer about one of those "magic bullet" things that most people gloss over.

   https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/israels-pager-attacks.html

   • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
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     scribe (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:55:04 JST scribe

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     And as he points out, this is a hard problem to solve, a Very Hard Problem indeed. Our modern societies are built on huge chains of trust - and it only takes 1 or 2 breaks in those links to disrupt the whole thing.

     Maybe links can be re-established in the long term. But can those affected survive the short-term breakdown? That's the thing.

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 07:52:15 JST simsa03

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     It's basically the end of globalised trade. And with that the start of various financial crises.
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     scribe (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:20:27 JST scribe

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 It's hard not to see this as technology (the system, not the output) as eating itself. My bets would be long on disaster recovery and insurance.