Privacy@lemmy.ml • 5 months ago

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

www.theguardian.com

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Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

www.theguardian.com

Privacy@lemmy.ml • 5 months ago

Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out

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That is not correct, either. The outage even took out decentralized platforms.
- @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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  Which decentralized platforms did it take out?
  - Possibly linux
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    1•5 months ago
    Maybe they are talking about the cash registers running Windows?

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