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1986:
5ESS: 5mins downtime in 25 years
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Including
routine maintenance
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Included
backup batteries, power fail detection, and “scream for
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help”
facilities for unattended (switching bunker) operation.
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Mother’s
Day, 1988, Hinsdale Illinois
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Switching
center fire disrupts service to 35,000 customers
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This
was a triple failure: ambiguous alarm design, simultaneous
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low
probability alarms (power, fire), failure of alarm circuits to
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reset
correctly.
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Threat
model was (needless to say) revised…
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SECURITY IS A PROCESS,
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NOT A SOLUTION!
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