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I wonder what kind of economic damage all these recent outages add up to. How much harm are they causing, in terms of productivity and value. Facebook's social networks I'd imagine are less impactful than the slack outages, which could completely cripple a company if they were primarily remote.
Ad content (images and video) seems to be loading fine on the iOS App. So the damage is likely minimal.
I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.
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People who make defense policy have been assuming the answer to that question was "yes" for about 20 years now. It's sometimes described as "cyber precedes kinetic." https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1215.html
Ok, so unfriendly sovereign nations are trying to “hurt” us by making social media inaccessible? I’m half joking here, but perhaps we should all be out, about, and enjoying Independence Day in person rather than through our phone screens. (Yes I realize WhatsApp is a different segment, an important way people communicate.)
Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.
Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.
I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.
The fact that these are called outages is kind of alarming. Do people rely on any of these as their exclusive communication when in danger?
You could have a soft-serve ice cream machine outage.
Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.
People couldn't pay bills, transfer money and some couldn't even buy gas.