Needless Panic Over a Wi-FI Network Name
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing because someone named his wireless network (presumably from his smartphone) “bomb on board.”
In 2006, I wrote an essay titled “Refuse to be Terrorized.” (I am also reminded of my 2007 essay, “The War on the Unexpected.” A decade later, it seems that the frequency of incidents like the one above is less, although not zero. Progress, I suppose.
Rhys • December 1, 2017 10:58 AM
Seems that we revisit insecurity as the inverse of security on a more frequent basis.
As long as so many practitioners & consumers suffer the belief that attacks only serve rational purposes- rational responses to the irrational will continue to perturb their sanguine torpor.
Insecurity is a dysfunction better left to psychologists. Not computer scientists & technologists.
Allowance for other human frailties, foibles, & dysfunctions should be part of Uncertainty accommodations in our systems. (Particularly in this case, entertainment systems.)