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Duct Tape

Unraveling the Duct Tape

January 21, 2012

I’ve written before about the world being held together by duct tape… and it seems there are more people lately who have decided to rip off the covers and go looking for some duct tape.  The latest headline comes from the world of SCADA systems.

The world is held together by duct tape

September 24, 2010

CIA used ‘illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones’

Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi’s code (targeting software) to deliver a version that produced locations inaccurate by up to 13 metres. Despite knowing about the miscalculations, the CIA accepted the software, court submissions indicate.

drones

I have a theory… or perhaps this should be another of those rules to live by.

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