• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Thanks! Yeah it’s important to stick to the evidence. Otherwise it’ll seem like cyber attacks are much more prevalent than they actually are which helps Putin. But it’s hard not to have that initial reaction when hearing about fires and blackouts in Europe lately.

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      12 hours ago

      What really scared me is the internet service and mobile networks went down a few minutes (like, 2-3 minutes) after the main power.

      Comms switch centers and cell towers are supposed to have batteries to keep them running for a while. But they went black almost immediately.

      During the day we got some short moments of connectivity. Short and sparse.

      There are things that I’d like to have some explanation for.

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        11 hours ago

        That’s not what happened in the entirety of Spain. I’m from one of the least affected areas (basque country) where the blackout only lasted ~2h. My cellphone had 4g connection the entire time.

      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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        12 hours ago

        Aux power is probably not suited to deal with an outage of this scale. They probably reserved whatever they had at their disposal for emergency calls. Unless those didn’t work either in which case damn.

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          10 hours ago

          At this very moment, the tower my cellphone hooks to is not providing 5G connectivity. But when I went out to have breakfast and walked just one block I got a good one. So maybe some equipment was damaged by whatever happened (and has still not been repaired, which is understandable).