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|    danny burstein to All    |
|    Re: kill switch    |
|    04 May 23 16:47:08    |
      From: dannyb@panix.com              [snip]       >> > >Not just moving machinery, lots of electrical equipment have them.=20       >> > And data centers.=20       >>=20       >> Why not for "mainframes, servers, routers, desktops, laptops and phones?=       >=20       >>=20       >> > >(On one machine I worked on, I think I counted at least 8 different=20       >> > >emergency stop buttons.)              >Where I worked the shunt trip took care of that. =20              And then there's this:              [NYC's Tabloid of Record]               Oops! FDNY contractor presses wrong button, shuts down       NYC's emergency dispatch system        ====       rest:       https://nypost.com/2022/10/15/fdny-contractor-presses-wrong-butt       n-shuts-down-emergency-dispatch-system/              --       _____________________________________________________       Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key        dannyb@panix.com       [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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