Posted on 02/09/2022 3:52:48 PM PST by outofsalt
"The maritime industry transports 90% of the world’s trade and cyberattacks on shipping increased 900% between 2017 and 2020, to the tune of one incident on a ship every day. How much of your supply chain runs across the ocean?" "“The disruption of ships, ports, communications and shipping lanes is a genuine threat. This is crippling to the larger economy/larger supply chains—especially with things stretched thin today,” says Steve Moore, chief security strategist at Exabeam. “Amazon is even building its fleet with its own technology to control these problems more effectively.”"
(Excerpt) Read more at industryweek.com ...
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That’s what happens when your aim is to automate everything to get rid of employees.
Before I retired, the company I worked for spent a lot of money and training in a new computer program that was supposed to do everything. It was a disaster and hard on the employees. My statement on it was that the tool had become the job. You were always trying to satisfy the tool.
Looks like the ships are going to have to use old navigational skills to check their locations, against what the computers indicate. -Tom
I remember coming into an anchorage in Borneo using sun lines. The land was too flat for radar and there were no other electronic navigation systems available at that time.
I’m not sure what the level of experience is for celestial navigation in today’s sailors.
“Satisfy the tool” I’m going to have to use that line at my job.
I had a GPS unit on my boat... A Gray Plastic Sextant.
I finally got a GPS for my car and now I have two women telling me how to drive.
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