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In sunny switzerland.ha!heavy rain today which fell as snow at around 1800 metres.
The Ethernet connection to our flat was out for a couple of days which meant no internet and no tv.
Several shops in Montreux also had unrelated connection problems and couldn’t take payments. In another shop someone’s phone payment didn’t work
At the airport one person couldn’t use his phone to check in and had not printed out a copy of his ticket so looks like he missed the flight.
A few days ago nineteen UK railway stations were hit by a communications hack.
Instead of backing off putting all our digital eggs in one basket we seem as individuals and government to use digital at every opportunity even when it causes problems
Surely this will all end with the most massive cyber attacks or via a series of accidental faults that will take down key areas of our society
No hire car this time round, they have become far too clever for their own good so using the Swiss rail network instead.
It seems that electric vehicles do have the capability to be hacked so let’s hope sufficient safeguards are now being designed in.
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