How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet on Tuesday – in plain English

Yesterday’s outage showed how dependent the modern web is on a handful of core infrastructure providers. In fact, it’s so dependent that a single configuration error made large parts of the internet totally unreachable for several hours. Many of us work in crypto because we understand the dangers of centralization in finance, but the events The post How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet on Tuesday – in plain English appeared first on CryptoSlate.