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''I had a small collection of these quotes somewhere, but at the moment I cannot find them. [[User:Woozle|Woozle]] ([[User talk:Woozle|talk]]) 07:09, 7 July 2017 (EDT)'' | ''I had a small collection of these quotes somewhere, but at the moment I cannot find them. [[User:Woozle|Woozle]] ([[User talk:Woozle|talk]]) 07:09, 7 July 2017 (EDT)'' | ||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
| − | {{box/quote|We never anticipated that our critical infrastructure control systems would be facing advanced levels of malware.|Jon Wellinghoff, the former chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<ref>'''2017-07-06''' [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html</ref> | + | {{box/quote|We never anticipated that our critical infrastructure control systems would be facing advanced levels of malware.|Jon Wellinghoff, the former chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<ref>'''2017-07-06''' [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html</ref>}} |
| + | Experts and others have been warning for years that our energy infrastructure is vulnerable to digital infiltration. | ||
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| + | {{box/quote|I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.|[[George W. Bush]], 2005<ref>'''2005-09-01''' [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4204754.stm Bush insists help is on the way]</ref>}} | ||
| + | Experts had been predicting for decades that the levee system was inadequate to deal with a really bad storm. Local officials had asked for federal help to repair and rebuild; see [[Hurricane Katrina/response]]. | ||
| + | ==Related== | ||
| + | * [[David Brin: Reducing Blame to Fundamentals]] | ||
==Footnote== | ==Footnote== | ||
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Revision as of 11:26, 7 July 2017
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Any calamity that could have been prevented by the actions of a small number of official authorities will very likely be followed by baffled disclaimers from those authorities, asking rhetorically "who could have anticipated that this would happen?" Examples of this go back at least to the late 1800s.
I had a small collection of these quotes somewhere, but at the moment I cannot find them. Woozle (talk) 07:09, 7 July 2017 (EDT)
Quotes
We never anticipated that our critical infrastructure control systems would be facing advanced levels of malware.
Experts and others have been warning for years that our energy infrastructure is vulnerable to digital infiltration.
I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.
Experts had been predicting for decades that the levee system was inadequate to deal with a really bad storm. Local officials had asked for federal help to repair and rebuild; see Hurricane Katrina/response.