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  • the McDonalds tech outage - any bets?

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 17 09:01:52 2024
    From the «arterial sclerosis of the domain controller» department:
    Feed: Technology | The Guardian
    Title: McDonald’s hit by ‘technology outage’ in UK, Australia, Japan and China
    Author: Dan Milmo, Jordyn Beazley and Amy Hawkins
    Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:16:24 -0400
    Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details

    Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attack

    McDonald’s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have
    been hit by a “technology outage”, which the fast food chain denied had been
    caused by a cybersecurity attack.

    Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit.
    Continue reading...[1]

    Links:
    [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details (link)

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 17 19:05:58 2024
    My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
    and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
    --scott

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  • From David LaRue@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Mon Mar 18 15:41:08 2024
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:


    My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
    and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
    --scott


    Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

    The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

    Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's
    order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
    --
    David

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to David LaRue on Mon Mar 18 16:10:08 2024
    David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> wrote at 15:41 this Monday (GMT):
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:


    My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
    and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
    --scott


    Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

    The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

    Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
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    David

    Maybe for verification purposes?
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  • From immibis@21:1/5 to David LaRue on Mon Mar 18 18:11:24 2024
    On 18/03/24 16:41, David LaRue wrote:
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:


    My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
    and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
    --scott


    Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

    The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

    Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
    --
    David

    Most systems are now designed with the basic assumption that the
    internet is always available - just like they assume that the electrical
    grid is always available.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to immibis on Mon Mar 18 17:25:29 2024
    immibis <news@immibis.com> wrote at 17:11 this Monday (GMT):
    On 18/03/24 16:41, David LaRue wrote:
    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com: >>

    My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
    and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
    --scott


    Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

    The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the >> outage.

    Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's
    order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be >> the first or second test a store would go through.
    --
    David

    Most systems are now designed with the basic assumption that the
    internet is always available - just like they assume that the electrical
    grid is always available.

    Yeah, just look at all the "smart" devices exist.
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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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