Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
The cause is OBVIOUSLY that we Taxed them more! THIS is why we need to CUT their Taxes and Lower our Wages!
I did hear that it was caused by a solar flare, but I haven’t actually checked that. If it wasn’t a solar flare, I wonder if it could’ve been a case of cyber warfare?
Unlikely. The most likely cause is that it was caused by a misconfiguration, like someone typo’d a line in a file somewhere, which then propagated outwards when everything downstream got the faulty update.
If it was a solar flare,or cyberwarfare, it would be more indiscriminate, rather than targeting a specific vendor’s hardware or a single network.
Edit: Sure enough, it was a botched update.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing
We had that in Canada, and not only was it ~1/3 of our providers (we usually only have 3), it also took out 911 in some areas, and payment terminals.
Someone botched some sort of update at the telecom company responsible for all those services…lmao
Same in Australia, massive outages when Optus broke their shit a second time
