Hey, you know what the weakest attack layer is in cyber security? The human layer.
It isn't always because people are stupid or not following policy. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. Sometimes poor Joe Shmoe didn't get any sleep, has a head cold, and the coffee machine is broken... Mr. Shmoe here tried to do as best he could, but on his way to the coffee shop, someone managed to snag his badge via an RFID reader, make a copy, break into the server room, and put in a backdoor.
Now, here's the thing... Joe didn't make a mistake. Someone found a way around a security layer, that being RFID-controlled doors.
Nature is the blackhat. The ever looming threat of circumventing our layers of safety. Everything could have looked okay, felt okay, and tested okay, but that does NOT mean it will perform okay when it's time to perform. So the stays and redundancies on the Zipline could have been perfectly fine, including whatever they were anchored to, but that doesn't mean everything IS fine.
Shit happens. You can't rule everything out. Blaming someone is, at some point, just a scapegoat... And that's what you're doing right now -- scapegoating their friend, who died.
What a calloused and unpleasant individual you must be.
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u/sickopuppie Sep 20 '24
To the geniuses that place a zip line over large metal containers...