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Mwalimu to [email protected] • 1 year ago

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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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.

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      Which decentralized platforms did it take out?

      • Possibly linux
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        Maybe they are talking about the cash registers running Windows?

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