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Old 04-09-2023, 03:34 AM   #211
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Here in Canada, the outage of a major ISP a few months back managed to take down Interac.
Yes, not uncommon.

Another "Sword of Damocles" is a bad solar flare. They can take out satellites, power systems etc and also stupidly to save expense of a few hundred dollars at mobile masts and Digital TV/Radio masts they often use satellite GPS receivers. One as bad in the 19th C. will take out Musk's Starlink, Inmarsat, GPS, Sat TV etc till satellites are replaced as well as a load of more nothern power systems.
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