A combination of poor password hygiene and weak security on his Windows laptop gave the intruders unfettered access to the digital wallets in which he stored cryptocurrency.
Similar incidents happen every day at scale: people get robbed; organizations have their data lakes drained; nations find themselves under threat.
Our relentless optimization for speed has us valuing a 120Gbit/sec Thunderbolt port over a more thoughtful consideration of how we might be far better served by an operation more complex, secure – and slower.
Perhaps the point should not be which chip or algorithm renders the fastest or most accurate operation, but which systemic approach offers the greatest level of safety and security.
Systems that have no friction in them – running unsupervised, without speed bumps, with no skeptical humans in the loop judging and grading – are hurtling down the highway to hell.
On the other hand, a massive financial transaction or data migration could include baked-in “breakpoints” that require human intervention before automated work continues.
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