The Looming Digital Meltdown - The New York Times

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We have built the digital world too rapidly. It was constructed layer upon layer, and many of the early layers were never meant to guard so many valuable things: our personal correspondence, our finances, the very infrastructure of our lives.

Zeynep Tufekci pinpoints the vulnerabilities of computers due to the technological debt they carry along; why aren’t computer bugs scrutinized with the same rigor as for example plane crashes?

2018