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Blackout Worse For Internet Than Previously Thought?

Posted by simoniker on from the tragic-leech-loss dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Renesys (the people who previously brought you cool animated graphs of the US/Canada power outage has a new report out. It challenges the widely held belief that the Internet was largely unaffected by the power outage. Lots of important networks lost connectivity, including banks, hospitals, government organizations and investment funds. There's a cool appendix on the huge Italian power outage in September as well. They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure."

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  1. Infrastructure by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny
    They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure.


    But seemingly no less so than the power grid.

    -Peter
  2. Worst case scenario by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Funny

    I lost slashdot for a day. I almost had to commit a suicide to relieve the pain.

  3. Re:I'm not sure I agree with their conclusions by lunartik · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many of your learned about the blackout from Slashdot or some other online news source?

    I learned about it when my card wouldn't swipe me out of the parking garage. And then when all of the traffic lights were out downtown. And then after searching the dial and finding the one AM station still on the air.