Looking back on the RFC questions we tackled a wide range of security
subjects about education, community and the rights of women and
vulnerable people impinged by a dearth of cash.

We’ve pointed out one-way transformations and tipping points with
hysteresis than mean systems can be irreversibly broken even before
they show signs. As seen with the US telecoms systems – due to the
idiocy of installing back-doors in their own software – or with the US
Treasury in the post-DOGE takeover – one is left with a “completely
poisoned” situation in which the only realistic path back to security
is gutting and rebuilding the entire system. This can take years or
even decades! Resilient paper systems are a last line of defence.

The CrowdStrike incident made a compelling case study. From it
cybersecurity professionals learned key lessons about the dangers of
monopoly and dominant suppliers and to avoid single-track systems with
single points of