How Vulnerable Are Our Digital Systems? By Jeffrey Tucker

Quite vulnerable, actually. From Jeffrey Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:

Last week a cyberattack hit a huge number of car dealers in the United States. The software designed by the company CDK was completely disabled, affecting the whole of an integrated process of purchasing and processing. Sellers could not process sales, loans, insurance, registrations, and much more. It happened suddenly, lasted two and a half days, came back, then went down again.

How did car dealers function? They wrote it all out on paper and pledged to complete the process after the systems came back. They are back and all seems well but the experience is a warning sign. These systems are far more vulnerable than anyone normally assumes. All it takes to shut down the modern world as we know it is a hack here and there. That’s an alarming realization.

The problem is that the technological revolution as we fashioned it 30 years ago gradually evolved in an ever more centralized way, wholly dependent on a weak and old-fashioned electrical grid of networks without much duplication or backstopping. The software too has become centralized for each industrial purpose. If one thing goes wrong in any system with a single point of failure, the whole comes to a grinding halt.

Continue reading

One response to “How Vulnerable Are Our Digital Systems? By Jeffrey Tucker

  1. Neo is the One

    Always make backups to the point of redundant.

    If it all wipes could old programming languages return?

    Do they still use COBOL in the glorious peoples republic of CA? Yes, and 60 years old.

    As Hegemony Cricket is hated for hyprocrisy and warmongering will attacks increase. Yes.

    These things happen when you join at the hip with outside nations and “your” nation is a just a milk cow to be put out to pasture so prepare, plan, place your food/ammo/medical caches and stack preps deep.

    Breaking From Iration Steppas:

    Hard Time Pressure In A Babylon (Suffocation Mix)

    Like

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.