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Internet Outages Reveal Weaknesses
2015-03-30 19:56:30| Telecom - Topix.net
When vandals sliced a fiber-optic cable in the Arizona desert last month, they did more than time-warp thousands of people back to an era before computers, credit cards or even phones. They exposed a glaring vulnerability in the nation's Internet infrastructure: no backup systems in many places.
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