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stat_o_vision2014-05-17 09:32 pm
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[So very private to Persona users.]
First of all - I'm really not supposed to talk about this. Really not supposed to talk about this. There were incidents with news reporters at the time, trying to get answers anywhere they could when the company couldn't give them and- I've been forbidden to talk about this. Please, please don't share anything I say here.
Secondly - Everything I say here, I am saying as an individual. All views expressed are my own, I do not represent and have never represented Jupiter Corporation.
Two years ago, there was an incident. I'm sure many of you have heard of it - it was all over the news at the time. The Tokimori University Hospital fell victim to a malicious cyber attack. Every failsafe, every backup, failed. From the outside, there was nothing that could be done as every system in the hospital shut down. It lasted for one hour. People died. Dozens of people. It was a tremendous tragedy.
The perpetrator was never found. Jupiter Corporation has accepted responsibility for their failure to prevent this incident. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened on every possible level. It was a horrible incident that shouldn't have been allowed to happen, of course, but it also should never have been possible.
You all know about inactive 'ghost' servers, yes? Those are the stability features that are in place for things as frivolous as shopping centres and cafes. I can't disclose the kinds of safety features that are in place for systems that people's lives depend on - even if I could I don't know that much about them, only that they're there, that there's backups of the backups of the backups and failsafes for the failsafes, they have backup power sources enough to weather any natural disaster you can think of - these aren't new. These were all in place before the incident, and have since been checked and checked again and again and no independent expert that was brought in - and a lot were brought in - could find any point at which the systems could fail completely. The most skilled, clever cybercriminal in the world couldn't have brought down every system completely at once, let alone done so without leaving a trace. Even if they could, systems failed that weren't even connected to the main servers.
Because of this, I suppose it was only natural that people would assume there was a conspiracy involved. They investigated any connections between Jupiter's higher-ups and the hospital, it's directors, the people who died - there were none. They investigated the people who oversaw the failsafes at the hospital - nothing. My family still get questions about it to this day.
I think that's everything. I don't think there's much I know that you couldn't find out if you searched around, I just happened to be caught in the middle of it all, but if you have questions, I'll try to answer them.
Secondly - Everything I say here, I am saying as an individual. All views expressed are my own, I do not represent and have never represented Jupiter Corporation.
Two years ago, there was an incident. I'm sure many of you have heard of it - it was all over the news at the time. The Tokimori University Hospital fell victim to a malicious cyber attack. Every failsafe, every backup, failed. From the outside, there was nothing that could be done as every system in the hospital shut down. It lasted for one hour. People died. Dozens of people. It was a tremendous tragedy.
The perpetrator was never found. Jupiter Corporation has accepted responsibility for their failure to prevent this incident. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened on every possible level. It was a horrible incident that shouldn't have been allowed to happen, of course, but it also should never have been possible.
You all know about inactive 'ghost' servers, yes? Those are the stability features that are in place for things as frivolous as shopping centres and cafes. I can't disclose the kinds of safety features that are in place for systems that people's lives depend on - even if I could I don't know that much about them, only that they're there, that there's backups of the backups of the backups and failsafes for the failsafes, they have backup power sources enough to weather any natural disaster you can think of - these aren't new. These were all in place before the incident, and have since been checked and checked again and again and no independent expert that was brought in - and a lot were brought in - could find any point at which the systems could fail completely. The most skilled, clever cybercriminal in the world couldn't have brought down every system completely at once, let alone done so without leaving a trace. Even if they could, systems failed that weren't even connected to the main servers.
Because of this, I suppose it was only natural that people would assume there was a conspiracy involved. They investigated any connections between Jupiter's higher-ups and the hospital, it's directors, the people who died - there were none. They investigated the people who oversaw the failsafes at the hospital - nothing. My family still get questions about it to this day.
I think that's everything. I don't think there's much I know that you couldn't find out if you searched around, I just happened to be caught in the middle of it all, but if you have questions, I'll try to answer them.