Tallasatree's comments

2 people equally confident in their own, completely opposing opinions. Every comment enabled website in a nutshell.

Speaking about America, almost everything in a building beyond aesthetics is designed to a CODE MINIMUM. from the hangers that hang the ACT ceiling all the way, and especially to, the structural system. These systems have been designed and tested ad nauseam to provide minimum life safety standards. People in any industry can cut corners and screw up. Special situations can arise that surpass a minimum level standard (Fires started at every exit door, 9.0 earthquake...good luck) The forest you're missing through the trees here is the structured process that forces designers in a mature industry to design to a minimum agreed upon standard. Ironically, I'm highlighting the benefits of regulation...where it makes sense.

the forest I might be missing through the trees is that maybe there is an industry agreed upon standard within the Tech industry. My understanding is almost all of these breaches happen because comically silly mistakes (pw = password), not super high sophisticated attacks.

Architect here: from the outside looking in, you hit the nail on the head. In addition to The industry being so young the _relatively_ low-impact when bad things happen make things like this 'not a big deal'. When your mistakes result in a public outcry for a day, then fades into obscurity into the night, why change? why invest money into figuring out a better way?

When your mistake makes a building fall over...well, there's a reason why that almost never happens.

The best way to increase you odds of getting shot is to own a "power tool". Something is not adding up here.

is this in essence a convex-hull problem, except instead of closing, we continue?