I’m up here at my OK place by myself, so when cell service was down yesterday, I had no idea it wasn’t just an isolated tower down in this area. My wife and daughter think it’s hilarious that I was totally oblivious to what was going on in the rest of the world. 
What caused the AT&T outage?
As it turns out, the reason for the outage could be one of simple human error: bad coding."Based on our initial review, we believe that (Thursday's) outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack, a spokesperson from AT&T said on the company's website. "We are continuing our assessment of today’s outage to ensure we keep delivering the service that our customers deserve."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-outage-bad-coding-february-2024/72709963007/
Personally, I seriously doubt this was the issue. It's too easy to do offline tests of codes that bring up bugs needing fixed, but this is the story currently.
As a programmer, I bet it’s the issue.
Done a bit of that myself for the power plant controls. It was tested so thoroughly that we were confident when putting it on line that the customer wouldn't see a blip in their service.
Maybe it happened that way, but critical infrastructure certainly deserves more scruitiny than just making a simple mistake that takes down half the country.
The balloon did it! Who really knows but it could be plausible.
www.reuters.com › world › usUS detects balloon over western United States, not a threat ...
Na, most of the outages were in the south and Southeast. Balloon was still over commiefornika.
While they may have done a lot of testing offline I would not be surprised one but if there testing environment does not mimic the latest production environment and the release did cause an unreported bug.
Funny how this happened right around the time that ballon thing flew around the US. It ain’t no coincidence folks. I hope y’all are prepared for what’s coming.
