[smoyer]

Security Guardian is not a he/him. It may be a translation issue ... or maybe you've achieved human-level AI and it's become self-aware? In any case, I find it interesting that your first response is that the tool might have a bug ... and the link also on HN at this moment is about the Apollo 13 mission control engineers thinking their telemetry might be at fault. This is an excellent first response and it's important to provide a way to distinguish between the two.

[dredmorbius]

Given the number of failures I've seen as a direct result of security and/or availability systems, the instinct to first question your own readings is a valid one. It's a good check particularly to make sure that your tests are valid, and that you aren't going off half-cocked with an alert (alarm fatigue is a Real Thing, and attention is a scarce resource).

I've also seen, in general, far more false alerts than real ones. (Yes, Nagios, I am in fact looking at you.)

The gender-casing is a quirk of the article, and would reflect at least three of the languages official within Switzerland (German, French, and Italian are all gendered languages, I'm fairly certain Romanche is as well). It's fair to note that, though perhaps not quite to the extent you did.

[coldacid]

Ships are not she/her and yet we use that kind of language with them all the time. Silly thing to quibble about.