The silver lining is that people will now not be so quick to shift to a cashless society. ABC radio had some wanker from ANU pushing that a couple of months ago on several programs but he failed to bring up the issues of privacy and removing the control from RBA to control the money supply.
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Looking forward to read about the postmortem analysis of this outage, and whether this operator had single points of failure.
We'd thankfully just disconnected from Optus (not easy, we had a commercial fibre line) a few days before this outage. They've been getting progressively less reliable and outages had almost become routine.
Looks like mobile network just came back online
I left Optus the moment they hired a politician (Gladys) who was still in the process of being investigated for corruption, and the evidence was solid.
That said everything I needed to know about the way management at Optus operates
She's also one of the main people who screwed us during the pandemic. If she wasn't in charge, we would have ended lockdown much earlier
Yup indeed it's very annoying right now :(
I suspect some fresh faced PFY came across a dusty old router deep in a closet somewhere and made the cardinal sin of touching a piece of equipment that they do not know is the beating heart of their operations.
One can only hope that the relevant Bastard in charge of said PFY is either gone or dead.