abstract:When Technology Fails, edited by Neil Schlager, is a collection of 103 case studies about significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the 20th century. It was published in 1994 by Gale Research, Inc..
Colegrove believes that 3D printers have passed the "disillusionment" phase that comes when a new technologyfails to match the hype of inflated expectations.
Possibilities include directing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to prod states to submit more records, upgrading technology to automatically notify law enforcement when someone fails a background check and improving incentives for states to submit records.
The Context Reflux experiment highlights one of the most important questions in IT security: what technology do we trust and what happens when it fails (or is manipulated)?