The internet as existential threat
I&#x27;m getting worried.  I&#x27;ve been harping on the Maersk downtime lately. The ports of the largest shipping company in the world have been shut down for two days by a cyber attack. Trucks can&#x27;t unload or load at many of the world&#x27;s ports, including the main container ports of LA, NYC, and Rotterdam. They&#x27;re going to be down tomorrow, too. Maybe partial operation by Friday.[1]  Maersk even lost phone and email systems. One of the few good sources of info has been somebody at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who sends out alerts to truckers.<p>It&#x27;s a distributed outage.  The usual forms of disaster preparation involve geographic dispersal. That doesn&#x27;t work against this threat. Few companies are as physically dispersed as Maersk, which has major facilities in 61 countries.  It didn&#x27;t help.<p>What happens when someone figures out how to take over Windows Update or the Intel Management Engine or Ubuntu Update?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;btt.paalerts.com&#x2F;recentmessages.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;btt.paalerts.com&#x2F;recentmessages.aspx</a>