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Canada's internet outage caused by 'maintenance'
BBC ^
| 07/10/2022
| Malu Cursino
Posted on 07/10/2022 10:37:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
CEO Tony Staffieri said the failure followed "a maintenance update in our core network".
Transport, banking and emergency services were all hit by Friday's blackout, with 911 hotlines and bank ATMs left unavailable.
Canadians flocked to coffee shops and libraries to find a connection.
The service outage began at 04:30 local time (08:30 GMT) on Friday and lasted for more than 15 hours, but most services have now been restored.
Mr Staffieri said the maintenance work "caused some of our routers to malfunction early Friday morning".
The outage had a huge effect on a wide range of services across Canada, serving as a reminder of how reliant society has become on modern communications.
Many 911 services reported difficulties with incoming calls and hospitals asked on-call staff to come into work until the issue was resolved.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: canada
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To: Jonty30
upgrade for surveillance...
They probably put a huge data vacuum on line.
2022 will be known as the year Canada fully embraced the chinese model of social control.
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posted on
07/10/2022 11:39:35 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
Trudeau is setting the system up for the Dominion Voting Machines
To: BenLurkin
At first glance,
StarLink would seem like a good way to go, but that would depend on whether or not the Canadian government would want an internet that they can't shut off.
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posted on
07/10/2022 11:42:19 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
To: Jonty30
It seems to me that they always upgrade for surveillance reasons when these outages happen.
I work in IT backup, and I am NOT surprised at the explanation. Maintenance, upgrades, emergency tests, thats when things go awry. Frankly, computer systems would work much more reliably if people would just STOP USING THEM. There is a motto for people like us: "IT, we fix more things than we break."
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posted on
07/10/2022 11:45:10 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
(What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
To: Dr. Sivana
That may all be true, but we don’t live in an age where it’s hands off. It seems the guvernment and elites are bent in corralling us where they want us.
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07/10/2022 11:47:49 AM PDT
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Jonty30
(Are vegetarian real vegetarian burgers or just fake meat?)
To: mkmensinger
LOL, I miss the Red Green show
To: carriage_hill
Consider this; a premeditated planned and controlled network shutdown by Trudeau to develop future controlled test run of the Canadian population.
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posted on
07/10/2022 12:26:18 PM PDT
by
chopperk
To: Dr. Sivana
Two words: Change Control.
To: chopperk
Very possibly so.
Good hunch.
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07/10/2022 1:42:43 PM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: TechJunkYard
Two words: Change Control
Some change controls inherently have no or poor backout alternatives. Soemtimes you can perform what looks like a perfectly good Change, and the problem doesn't show up until related systems are on for twelve hours and try to execute something that no longer works. Besides that, some Change Controls do not account for all stakeholders until it is too late. Backup admins are inexplicably left out of the loop all too many times.
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07/10/2022 2:06:42 PM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
(What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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