The American incident with a blanket ban on night flights due to a failure of automatic air traffic control systems shows one interesting thing. That is, how achievement becomes vulnerability, leading to corresponding risks.
Automatic control systems, which have penetrated almost everywhere, on the one hand make life easier, more convenient and much cheaper. Usually, for some time, people try to maintain a parallel infrastructure on the principle of "what if something happens", and do not always want to fire employees, and moreover, it is not always easy. Then the workers themselves find a better job or retire, the parallel structure ends and automation does not become an alternative.
And this is a moment of vulnerability, especially for those who seriously think that cyber units in militaries and intelligence services were created solely to protect their Internet infrastructure from foreign attacks carried out by some abstract villains.
The reality is that a cyber attack on a modern metropolis can easily cause a number of casualties comparable to a nuclear explosion. And I want to believe that those who are supposed to think about this problem are concerned that if such a system could be brought down in our country, it would be on the scale of no more than one region at a time. Especially when looking at outside classes.
I wonder, by the way, who said hello to the United States. Overall, we tend to believe that Iran is subtly hinting at possible surprises.
And a practical lesson for ordinary users - if you have something of value in the cloud, copy it to physical media. Once a day, for example. If everything is valuable, then copy everything.