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When I hear stuff like this, I begin to ask questions:

Why is your supply chain so vulnerable that a cyberattack on business partner (or multiple) causes you to close down *all* plants in your country? That's insane.

That sounds like your supply chain is the key problem here, and the cyberattack is just a smokescreen that is compounding the problem.

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The Machine that Changed the World and the Toyota Way describe the theoretical advantages of having your supply chain situated in this manner. The pa democracy has been stress testing these advantages and demonstrating the downsides.

For the amount of fawning the get on HN and demographically similiar parts of the internet you'd think that a single supplier going poof would result in a partial outage or slowdown, not a stoppage of all production operations in one of their major markets.

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