What Caused Such a Widespread Tech Meltdown

&gt; “This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world’s core internet infrastructure,” said Ciaran Martin, the former Head of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center who is now a professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.<p>Is it? Azure is not &quot;core internet infrastructure&quot; in the same way that DNS, network peering, oceanic cables and the like are. They&#x27;re just a big CSP. Your on-prem Windows box is definitely not internet infra.

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