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Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)


From: Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:49:58 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:

1. The “Emergency Power Off” button did not have a protective cover at the time of the shutdown or the following WSP investigation.

Aka "molly-guard".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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