Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords
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Published 2014-01-16
All Comments (21)
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“Facebook became the most trusted site” boy did that one age beautifully
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"Google's Trusted Five" Marvel is already buying the rights.
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"Forgot" is such an innocent, optimistic term ... like saying you "forgot" to lock the door on your way out, when what you did was remove the door from its hinges.
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"Everyone has that one single point of failure" Like that semicolon on line 463
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Me: Well it's not like this fictional scenario has e- Tom Scott: It already happened with Dropbox.
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The mundanity of Tom's sci-fi is always what I find most gripping. Like with the Earworm story, people ultimately just want to get back to their lives.
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You missed the chance to name the three groups "Defenders, Detectives, Destroyers" for the alliteration.
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reads the video is fictional halfway through thinks its not flips shit inside his head thinks again realises that it's fictional
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This must be made into a movie.
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She got caught at the airport, Her flight got delayed the airport ran google systems. Just the best ending ever!
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So detailed story that I actually thought this was true and wondered how could I have missed those news...
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I love how he added (fictional) to the title. xD
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Youtube recommended this video on April's Fools. Pretty convenient.
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It's like the purge, only online.
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Obviously it's fictional because Kim Kardashian's tweet has proper grammar.
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A marvelous comical geeky horror fiction with just enough points of specificity and verisimilitude to keep you awake at night.
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Back in the early Internet days, I worked at a company doing a presentation to a group of future major companies. An engineer at a remote site, was told to wipe a machine. He executed the command that raced through all of its directories including linkages to main servers. The presentation began to disappear. Unfortunately this also affected the hundreds of sites we hosts around the world. This type of 'simple' failures happens more often than you realize. It's not always reported.
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The worst thing is, I remembered the talk a few months later after seeing it and didn't remember this was a fictional story. I told many people about this, like it really happened, well everyone was shocked but believed it.
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THIS. Is a prime example of why you should always read descriptions before watching a video. LOL
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Tom, if you wrote a novel about this, I would buy it immediately. You had me thrilled for the entire fifteen minutes.
