TECH

Connectivity ain't what it used to be

Life, James Hein, Published on 09/07/2014

» I have seen a few stories in the last month of so which indicate that our global connectivity is being stretched to its limits in some areas. Network dropouts are increasing and lasting longer. A simple DNS mistake recently took Virgin Media off the network for a while, annoying their Twitterati and other customers. Expectations these days are that people will be notified instantly if there is a problem and Virgin fielded complaints that their website hadn’t been updated indicating an outage within 10 minutes of it occurring. Hackers are finding more gaps to exploit and every other day a person’s supposedly secure information gets into the hands of some unknown group. To some extent it comes down to infrastructure.