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The Optus outage wasn’t a hack. Here’s why we’re screwed if it had been
Wednesday was a relatively benign disruption in comparison to a hostile state-based attacking, and we went into meltdown.
Paul SmithTechnology editorOptus’ chaotic outage on Wednesday wasn’t cyber warfare, but it showed why we should all fear it, and why there is still a lot of work to be done in co-ordinating the response when critical digital infrastructure suddenly stops working.
The country’s second-largest telecommunications provider went dark (or orange) just before 4am Sydney time on Wednesday, and services didn’t start limping back online until after 1pm.
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