https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/a...eaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/ Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and app backends including Nest.
It's crazy that we're allowing so many things to be connected to the internet and subject to disruption when we know the platform is inherently insecure at this point. We should legislate against critical infrastructure being connected in this way.
Not worried about Skynet (yet.) Worried about other actors that clearly have the capability to take things down and not just from a nation state perspective. How much of our wealth is held and managed in ways that a 3 day outage of internet service would essentially destroy the system?