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the blast radius assigned to failure mode i : how much of a system, how much data, how many users or how much liability a given failure could plausibly reach, drawn from a small number of severity tiers rather than treated as a continuous unknown.
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Equation guide → · This term → · Article →the blast radius assigned to failure mode i : how much of a system, how much data, how many users or how much liability a given failure could plausibly reach, drawn from a small number of severity tiers rather than treated as a continuous unknown.
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