This. I don't think most people realize how much eggs they put into one basket. Every service that can be used for MFA (email, token, password manager) should have its own separate barriers of entry to make total compromise as difficult as possible.
Not sure this is indicative of anything other than political dysfunction. JPL is mostly dependent on NASA funding, and without a budget from Congress, NASA reduced their budget for Mars Sample Return by ~$600M. JPL can't pay the bills at the current staff level to the end of the year and here we are. The overall economy has little bearing here.
They mentioned during the media briefing that the terrain they were flying in were featureless, which is extremely challenging for it to determine where it's at, and thus it's possible that it misidentified some aspect of the terrain and caused this. Unfortunately because communication was lost when it landed, the flight data was lost, so we will never know for sure what happened.
During flight, high-rate flight data is written to volatile RAM, and 1HZ data is telemetered to Perseverance. The high-rate data is not written to disk until landing, because writing to disk is slow and CPU-intensive. There was a brownout during or just before landing, and sadly that meant the high-rate telemetry data was lost because it was never written to disk.
They talked about why they don't think it will fly anymore in the media briefing:
- Ingenuity is balanced down to fractions of a gram, and any imbalance, especially at the speed that Ingenuity spins its rotor at, will cause the spacecraft to tear itself apart.
- Most of the lift comes from the last 25 - 30% of its lift capacity. They think they lost about 25% of the rotor blade, and even if somehow the other blades lost the exact same amount to be completely balanced, there's just not enough lift left.
I have been looking to move away from 1Password and did look into this. The thing that prevented me from doing so is that if someone got access to your AppleID (through phishing or social engineering), it allows them to essentially take control of your entire online presence. Right now, I try to keep the single point failures to a minimum (ie don't keep Apple ID in password manager). Is this a concern that's worth thinking about or am I just shifting the problem from one place to another?
China absolutely do want that. For one, reducing the world's dependence on Taiwan-made semiconductor will demotivate some countries from backing the island nation on its independence claims.
Yes, obviously on some level they want it, but they didn't start focusing on it until they were forced to, so obviously on some level they also didn't want it.
