“Attention all AT&T customers. Please be advised that all AT&T lines are DOWN and that ALL texts and calls to non-emergency and emergency lines ARE NOT GOING THROUGH. Please seek alternatives.” [More]
So, in this situation, what do you say to an intruder?
And is this just a system breakdown due to oversight/maintenance failures, or a series of external infrastructure probes and tests?
UPDATE
Even if it was a solar flare, it just shows how unprepared and vulnerable most people are. Now imagine grid down for a day, for a week, for…
“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk!” Eli Wallach’s character in one of the Spaghetti Westerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGmBYv09jQ
AT&T says “software update”.
Personally, I’m not ruling out a Chinese cyber-attack.