Posted on 12/09/2021 5:29:19 AM PST by fruser1
Some Ring customers said that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out about the outage on social media.
Many rely on a phone app to enter their homes, rather than a code that can also be used, with those that had forgotten the latter stuck outside their own homes as Ring doorbells went down.
A source told DailyMail.com that the cause of the outbreak was a power failure in Virginia and not a malicious hacking.
The nearly eight-hour outage also disrupted the company's shipping operations on Tuesday, threatening to create lasting logjams during the Christmas season.
The outage shut down communications between Amazon and the fleet of thousands of drivers it relies on, preventing drivers from getting route assignments or packages.
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Or possibly electric cars with tax per mile fees that check your account to see you're paid up before allowing the car to start.
That’s funny. And if your garage door opens when sitting on the iPhone? Too much convenience out there. Turn on the heat switch when you get home.
A source told DailyMail.com that the cause of the outbreak was a power failure in Virginia and not a malicious hacking.
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This is about the third vague explanation Ive read about the cause of the outage. Just like Big Pharma, Big Tech is loath to be transparent.
But seriously, blaming the outage on a power failure is perhaps the lamest of the lame excuses. What, no UPS? No standby generators? Those sorts of devices have been standard where uninterrupted power is a necessity, such as hospitals, for decades.
The USD is already mostly digital.
The thought of thousands of young men stuck on their basement toilets yelling for Alexa to “get mommy” to no avail, makes me wake up with a simile this morning.
I doubt I'll ever make use of such invasive crap.
They’re requiring all new cars to have remote kill switches in a few years, hard to imagine they won’t use in-home cloud tech similarly when it suits them.
Apparently carrying keys in our pockets is too much of an inconvenience these days.
Right, a good data center has critical redundancies - electricity, networking, etc with a differing points of entry to the building.
A $1 bill is the physical representation of an entry on an electronic ledger valued at $1
This news is schadenfreude-worthy ;-)
Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.
Those who rely on all this technology crap I wish them the best.
Only device I speak into is a phone... My hands still work for ON/OFF OPEN/CLOSE.
If you’re dependent on AWS to get into your own home, that’s your lookout.
I guess then you could look at clouds from both sides then.
And no reason given for the 8 hour power outage? Weird.
I don’t have anything “smart” in my condo, so not affected by any cloud outage. My neighbors were with their Ring doors.
Well put. They call it the cloud but it's really the glass house. First time I ever heard of it, I knew it was to be avoided. Nothing's private there. Nothing.
“Open the pod bay doors HAL... I’m sorry Dave... I’m afraid I can’t do that”
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