From Newsgroup: alt.security
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13786527/Nationwide-ATT-outage-911-fears-dispatch-report-centers-widespread-failures.html
Why does my phone say SOS? Nationwide AT&T outage sparks 911
fears as dispatch centers report widespread failures
A nationwide AT&T outage has prompted users across the United
States to dial 911, as dispatch centers are reporting
widespread failures.
The outage seemed to have begun Tuesday afternoon, with a
spike in reports at around 6pm and 9pm, according to Down
Detector - a website that monitors outages.
The states that seem to be the most affected so far are
California, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida,
and Georgia - though more are starting to report problems,
Nick Sotor said.
AT&T blamed the issue on a critical failure at one of
its switching centers, which has resulted in a cascade
of problems
. . .
Accident - or Russian/Chinese cyber-attack ???
If the latter, expect the news to be SUPPRESSED,
esp because elections are coming up.
In any case, if you need 911, you MAY not be
able to get them on the line.
It seems a LOT, maybe MOST, of our modern
infrastructure is quite hackable - and
Russia/China/NK have put in a LOT of time
finding out exactly HOW.
Now just waiting for the lights to go out,
for like a month .........
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