[LINK] Electromagnetic pulse artillery shell

[David Lochrin]

On Wednesday 25 January 2017 11:05:20 David wrote:

> However it does remind us how vulnerable is the "infrastructure" of a big city and its ongoing operation when everything is online & interconnected.  Complexity tends to be justified on the basis of efficiency, but there's a reciprocal relationship between complexity & vulnerability.

Just cleaning up some old emails when I noticed the above.  Of course I should have written "Complexity tends to be justified on the basis of efficiency, but there's a proportional relationship between complexity & vulnerability." - greater complexity usually leads to greater vulnerability, but it's not simple.

David L.