The New York Times posted a downright thought-provoking technology-related article yesterday. John Schwartz's Who needs hackers? touches a topic succinctly encapsulated by ex-Bell Labs network-head Peter G. Neumann, now principal scientist at SRI International: "We don’t need hackers to break the systems because they’re falling apart by themselves."

This thing is full of memorable insights, including this post's titular sentiment (from the mouth of Andreas M. Antonopoulos), who also notes that, "on the scale we [attempt to anticipate failure in increasingly complex computer systems], it’s more like forecasting weather."

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