Gulfstream

http://slate.com/id/2104808/ I’d like to know more about some of the astounding disaster-recovery efforts described here. (1) In 1977, a factory that was Toyota’s sole supplier of a valve used in the breaking system in all its cars burnt down; Toyota had only three days’ worth of supplies but was able to get production going at pre-fire levels within a week. (2) A company lost all the people who knew the passwords to their off-site backups when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center came down, but were able to get access after going through everything they knew about the people who died, and trying variations as passwords. (This surely can’t work very often. I don’t think it would work with mine! Knowledge of past passwords probably helps quite a lot.) 20:47