[nabilhat]

The WaPo article itself is much more detailed. The bits about the age and fragility of Colonial's pipelines are far more significant than ransomware. Colonial's continued neglect is more disruptive than any single attack on the pipeline. The persistence of unreliable infrastructure is a more valuable disruptive asset to an organized opponent than a single targeted attack.

Tangent - Also interesting, the WaPo article [0] bears little resemblance to itself from only hours ago [1]. The article has grown by about 50%, while contents have come and gone. That's my favorite application for archive dot is - Seeing the timelapse of iterative releases, watching journalism bend and sway in the current of its own response. I'm not making any judgements, the internet is already sloshing with useless hot takes about journalism and media. It's just fascinating to see the modern editorial process at work, out in the open.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/cyber-att...

[1] https://archive.is/vlNs2

[throwawayboise]

Relates to the Kent Beck "Latency vs Througput" post[1] on here right now... do you post the story immediately, and start getting feedback, or do you wait and do research and get it (more) right before posting it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27088272