I thought it made a rather good point about just how interconnected everything on the web is becoming and how important large players can become to the overall ecosystem. It's also a good engineering principle that one should avoid single points of failure when possible, because what could fail will eventually fail.
Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
What if Google forgot about passwords?
This was an interesting thought experiment
I thought it made a rather good point about just how interconnected everything on the web is becoming and how important large players can become to the overall ecosystem. It's also a good engineering principle that one should avoid single points of failure when possible, because what could fail will eventually fail.
I thought it made a rather good point about just how interconnected everything on the web is becoming and how important large players can become to the overall ecosystem. It's also a good engineering principle that one should avoid single points of failure when possible, because what could fail will eventually fail.
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