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Telstra’s admitting a massive nationwide outage—crippling Triple Zero and Eftpos—might’ve been avoidable: a flawed software update and undocumented hardware changes led to a GPS card resetting a server’s clock to 2006, triggering a chain reaction that crashed critical systems. The company’s own submission to a Senate inquiry blames weak internal controls, with top execs facing tough questioning. This starkly exposes how fragile our digital infrastructure is when a single device fails.

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