Nationwide computer outage

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Amazing how widespread it is - just one innocuous third party application taking down all these critical systems

Maybe treat this as a valuable lesson on how reliant the world is on digital control systems. A dry run for the much longer term scenario that would occur in the event of coronal mass ejection or electromagnetic pulse weapon strike. In those cases the loss of communications and functionality of any electronically dependent device would be lost for very much longer than this 'blip', some permanently.