[Themaintainers] A Maintainers Response to Abundance?

[dan at geer.org]

> Any takers?

I am not in a position to help much, but perhaps
you can steal something from this:


A Rubicon
Hoover Aegis Series Paper #1801
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/geer_webreadypdfupdated2.pdf

Optimality and efficiency work counter to robustness and resilience.
Complexity hides interdependence, and interdependence is the source
of black swan events.  The benefits of digitalization are not
transitive, but the risks are.  Because single points of failure
require militarization wherever they underlie gross societal
dependencies, frank minimization of the number of such single points
of failure is a national security obligation.  Because cascade
failure ignited by random faults is quenched by redundancy whereas
cascade failure ignited by sentient opponents is exacerbated by
redundancy, (preservation of) uncorrelated operational mechanisms
is likewise a national security obligation.


--dan