CTS Field Notes
Ideas, observations, and useful links from CTS Companies.
Reported narratives of people, decisions, and events, grounded in a real scene or documented artifact, a consequential choice, necessary technical explanation, and a complicating second source or case.
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The Experiment That Became an Emergency
In 1988, a program meant to measure the young internet spread far beyond its design. The lasting lesson was about coordination, not clever code.
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The Day Cybersecurity Needed a Telephone Tree
The Morris worm revealed an awkward truth: a technical incident becomes a business problem the moment people need to coordinate faster than the system can explain itself.