• SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Wasn’t there also a report today (I think) about an unusual level of sunspot activity? Without digging into it, I think I sort of just assumed they were related.

    I have AT&T fiber and a Verizon iPhone and I didn’t notice disruptions on either. My partner has an AT&T iPhone and didn’t notice any issues.

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      8 months ago

      They are absolutely unrelated. If sunspot activity was significant enough, it would’ve affected more than just the one company.

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        8 months ago

        Sure, unless there was a correlation between the technologies deployed by the individual companies and their vulnerabilities.

        I’m not saying there is in this case, but it’s a phenomenon we see all the time in systems ranging from technological to immunological. When network (social, computer, whatever) connect systems with correlated vulnerabilities, there can be cascading failures that do not spread outside those networks. It’s been so long (over 30 years) since I’ve even thought about RF and related systems that I have no idea what specific or proprietary technologies the major companies have, so I just shrugged it off as I was unaffected, and penciled in that there may have been a correlation with solar activity.

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          8 months ago

          I acknowledge your reasoning, it’s just still quite a stretch to apply it to this particular scenario. We can apply Occam’s Razor here. What’s more likely? The company was using a completely unique infrastructure that was affected by rare solar phenomena? Or the company did something themselves (like push a faulty update as already referenced in news) that screwed themselves over?