What Happens When The Digital Prison Faulters?

Once again Australians have been hit by a serious telecommunications outage which started Wednesday morning, at 4:20am triggered Telstra says by a “software issue” when a human was working on their system. Rather opaquely they said that a particular node restarted as work was happening on it, and as it restarted a software glitch was triggered. The system crashed. By Friday most systems were back up, apart from a small number of the telco’s enterprise customers that “have more sophisticated solutions” where there will need to be field visits to reset devices. But during the outage, which was probably caused by […]