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But of course Twenex not only has security, and by default turns on security, but it's also designed with the assumption that security is in use. So there are lots of things that are very easy to do that can cause a lot of damage, and the only thing that would stop you from doing them by accident, is security. On ITS we evolved other means of discouraging people from doing those things by accident, but on Twenex you didn't have them because they assumed that there was going to be be strict security in effect and only the bosses were going to have the power to do them. So they didn't put in any other mechanism to make it hard to do by accident. The result of this is that you can't just take Twenex and turn off the security and have what you'd really like to have, and there were no longer the hackers to make the changes to put in those other mechanisms, so people were forced to use the security. And about six months after the machine was there they started having some coups d'etat. That is, at first we had the assumption that everyone who worked for the lab was going to have the wheel bit which gave full powers to override all security measures, but some days you'd come in some afternoon and find out that the wheel bits of just about everybody had been turned off.