If you can’t restore, and you don’t test, you don’t have backups!
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18 Monday Jan 2016
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 911, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
04 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in human-in-the-loop, leadership, management, product management
How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 911, and Accidentally Invented Remote War:
On the afternoon of October 7, 2001, the first day of the war in Afghanistan, an Air Force pilot named Scott Swanson made history while sitting in a captain’s chair designed for an RV. His contribution to posterity was to kill someone in a completely novel way.
Commentary (Dak): Ah, the power of a motivated team focused on solving problems rather than just serving the huge organizational process gods. Those processes have value in terms of scale and defensibility of acquisitions for well understood technologies (K-rations, anyone?) but they have their downsides.
