"A risk assessment of the Piql Services" by FFI

irrelevant for its safety and security – key criterion in scenario development. For clarity we list what they include: sudden illness includes highly contagious diseases and diffusion of vermin or insects; and aggregated individual acts encompass such actions as over-usage, sudden change in buying pattern, mass absenteeism and mass movement. It is possible to theorise that a highly deadly plague wipes out the entire Norwegian speaking population, making the information stored in this language unavailable to non-Norwegian speakers with an interest to access it. However, it is highly unlikely such a relentless plague would ever exist. Additionally, the world is highly globalised, which means that languages are taught to people all over the world, and native speakers also travel all over the world. So, it follows that a plague which truly makes Norwegian a dead language would have to eliminate the entire world’s population, in which case, the piqlFilms are wanted by no one. Similarly, the availability of information stored on piqlFilm would be compromised for a time by a long-lasting strike, but there are no recommendations we can make in this report, which is targeted at safety and security measures, which would help in this situation – indeed, the only advice one could give is to make sure the data owner is in compliance with national legislation and regulations related to the working environment – i.e. such scenarios can give no significant insight into the vulnerabilities and security challenges of the Piql Preservation Services. The two former scenario classes identified by Meyer– natural disasters and failure or malfunction – on the other hand, are more plausible and relevant to the Piql Preservation Services and its safety and security. Below we list the events Meyer included in the two scenario classes: 18

Natural disaster:

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Meteorological events o

Extreme winds (such as storms, hurricanes, tornados) o Extreme temperatures o Extreme precipitation (snow storms) o Flood o Little precipitation (such as drought, which may lead to forest fires)

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Geological events o Earthquake o

Volcano eruption

Tsunami

o

o Avalanches (such as dirt, mountain snow)

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Cosmological events o

Meteor showers

Radiation (such as sun storm)

o

18 We found that Meyer does not list forest fire as a relevant risk. We, however, find it relevant, and include it under meteorological events – little precipitation.

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