Andrew Odlyzko on Cybersecurity not Being a Big Deal

1. In 2019, Andrew Odlyzko published a paper in ACM Ubiquity in which he argued that cybersecurity was not as big a deal as some prognosticators had claimed http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/cyberinsecurity.pdf There are a number of insights, as well as some questionable arguments…. Read moreAndrew Odlyzko on Cybersecurity not Being a Big Deal

Computer Reliability in Legal Arguments, with Some Observations about Arguments

The cybersecurity and public policy expert Susan Landau has published an article in the Lawfare blog about Problems with Evidentiary Software in English and US courts; the attitudes of English and US courts towards the evidence generated by, or about the behaviour of,… Read moreComputer Reliability in Legal Arguments, with Some Observations about Arguments

The Usual Dilemma – Soliciting Information versus Ascribing Responsibility

The usual dilemma has surfaced in the Grenfell Tower inquiry. I must say I was expecting it to do so at some point. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/30/people-who-worked-on-grenfell-tower-could-face-life-sentences The dilemma in its current form amounts to this. 1. Civil engineers, regulators and others involved… Read moreThe Usual Dilemma – Soliciting Information versus Ascribing Responsibility

System Safety, Cybersecurity, the “Scope” of IEC 61508 and Broken Standards

IEC 61508, the the international standard for functional safety of systems involving E/E/PE subsystems (which nowadays means mostly every engineered system), is being revised, or “maintained” in the IEC jargon. It started, for the SW part, in November 2014 and… Read moreSystem Safety, Cybersecurity, the “Scope” of IEC 61508 and Broken Standards