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Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.