If I were the Iranians or Chinese or whoever might have cyber attacked us yesterday as a test, I might consider doing it at a time of increased solar activity. It gives the lazy Fs in the Pentagon an easy excuse to look the other way.
“Should get a stimulus check for this,” one man wrote on the website.
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Sorry to be off the main topic of the article, but I couldn’t help reacting to this.
That quote is very inductive of the post covid mindset. The new normal is an escalated sense of entitlement. Probably a Millennial or Gen-Z’er. A refund or rebate partially on the bill for time without service is fair. Wanting a cashy handout is silly, and if it’s a joke, no one is laughing.
73K customers is like a grain of sand on a beach
They said it was a “glitch”....now I know it was a cyber attack.
The “Official” explanation is that the problem was caused by a failed software update.
Software update that forwards all of your data to the NSA and CHiComs went wrong. Nothing to worry about.
Yesterday must have been a slow news day. AT&T has 100 Million customers. An outage involving fewer than 100,000 customers (0.1%) for a brief time is not worth all of the breathless reporting. Get a grip, people.
They say it was a “GLITCH.”
Years ago I made it a policy in my area that there were no “glitches.” Little gremlins did not live in the network cables that I managed. Connectors did not just become unconnected. Stuff just doesn’t “happen” without explanation.
(Yes...power supplies burn out and parts are faulty....the world IS an unperfected place. But even those come with an explanation and solution/prevention.)
No one was allowed to come in my office and discuss a system failure and use the term “glitch.”
That phrase drives me nuts. Its such a BS excuse.
The service loss was far broader that that.
3 X Class Solar Flares, Satellite/Network Issues, Biggest Flare of the Cycle | S0 News Feb.23.2024
Pay no attention to the other outages...
...or else!
Solar flares knocking out insufficiently shielded satellites out of their orbit resulting in Candy Crush having the lowest production day since its inception. Nothin nefarious unless you fear the wrath of God.
Quick to come out with program/computer problems. Me thinks something is afoul!
Fingers crossed outage is not the result of a directed energy weapon.
I had a little slowness off and on for a few days before a lot of people were affected, but I never lost service.
Everything was blamed on a solar flare, but spaceweather.com said otherwise. I did get wind that there was a problem with a tower in St. Louis.
Everything is running better than ever for me, but some family hada lot of issues. They use iphones and I don’t so i don’t know if that has anything to do with it or not. I am a very heavy user so it’s common for them to scale me back a bit and that’s what I thought it was. But they had me using my limit 24 hours after the cycle flipped so that doesnt make sense.