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spicybright on Feb 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter based map of Russian troop movements

It's true, but I tend to think humans are pretty bad at threat evaluation if the threat lasts for years and years.

Kind of like the IT admin that doesn't check backup integrity often enough because there's never been a data loss issue in years.

__blockcipher__ on Feb 25, 2022 [–]

Or conversely, when you have a flappy monitoring system that constantly complains about non-problems and half-problems, it gets very hard to notice when an actually serious alert is firing.

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