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Sweden and the “Coop” disaster:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530

That because people trust and hope blindly. They believe IT is for saving money? It isn’t. They coupled their cash registers onto an American cloud service. The couldn’t even pay in cash.

It usually gets worse, when not outages happens for some time. Because that increases blind trust.



That a Swedish supermarket gets hit by a ransomware attack doesn't prove/disprove the overall stability of the internet, nor the fragility of the web.




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