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Old 31st May 2017, 13:12
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Ian W
 
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The problem is often not hardware or software but 'wetware' as the human element is sometimes called. Or to put it another way - "Nothing is fool proof as fools are too ingenious".

Somewhere I worked in the past had a uninterruptable power supply providing smoothed power for the sensitive electronics being used - and the system would crash many evenings for no apparent reason. It was then found that a cleaner was using one of the smoothed power supply sockets in the machine room for a vacuum cleaner putting noise and spikes into the power not realizing the difference between the black sockets with smoothed power and the white sockets for 'domestic' power.
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