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I discuss the view of communication networks as self-organised critical systems, the mathematical models that may be needed to describe the emergent properties of such networks, and how certain security hygiene schemes may push a network into a super-critical state, potentially leading to large scale security disasters
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Stepney, S. (2003). Critical Critical Systems. In: Abdallah, A.E., Ryan, P., Schneider, S. (eds) Formal Aspects of Security. FASec 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40981-6_7
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