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We talk to Junade Ali, author of How to Protect yourself from Killer Computers
Computer system professional Junade Ali’s brand-new book, How to Protect yourself from Killer Computerschecks out the topic of why do IT systems stop working and why exists a culture of rejection amongst those accountable, both on the engineering side and greater levels of management.
He states: “In the subjects and case research studies covered in the book, there are examples of things like the Post Office Horizon scandal which have actually caused disastrous results.”
The book’s title is expressive, and creates Hollywood-esque Terminator and Hal 9000 situations. In the genuine world, Ali states that there have actually been numerous circumstances when computer systems have actually been associated to triggering somebody’s death. “We see examples of clients being provided deadly radiation dosages since of software application and an airplane going into a death dive due to the fact that of a rogue automation, which determined [incorrectly] that the human pilot was going to crash the airplane.”