Exactly, it’s going to be bad code on the power grid resetting generator sync devices - not “AI” that eats us. —L.B.
Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ > On Dec 11, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> > wrote: > > Valdis, > > Thank you for a prime example of the REAL threat of software eating the > world. (Well that, and "rm -f *" typed by the wrong users at the wrong place > in an increasingly global file heirarchy). Meanwhile, folks are busy > watching AI scenarios on tv. > > Miles > > Valdis Klētnieks wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:56:04 -0500, Max Harmony via NANOG said: >>> Programs have never done what you *want* them to do, only what you = >>> *tell* them to do. >> Amen to that - there was the time many moons ago when we launched a copy of a >> vendor's network monitoring system, and told it to auto-discover the network. >> It found all the on-campus subnets and most of the machines, and didnt seem >> to >> be doing anything else, so we all headed home. >> >> Come in the next morning, and discover that our 56k leased line to Nysernet >> (yes, *that* many moons ago) was clogged with the monitoring system trying to >> do SNMP probes against a significant fraction of the Internet in the >> Northeast. >> >> Things apparently went particularly pear-shaped when it discovered the >> MIT/Boston >> routing swamp... >> >> And of course, we *told* it "discover the network", when we *meant* "discover >> the network in this one /16.". Fortunately, it didn't support "discover the >> network and perform security scans on machines" - but I'm sure there's at >> least >> one security-scanning package out there that makes this same whoopsie all too >> easy to do, 3+ decades later... >> > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. > Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. > In our lab, theory and practice are combined: > nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
