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Brianna White

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When Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down unexpectedly, people and businesses were also unable to access their smart devices.
The outage, which was due to configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between Facebook’s data centers, lasted for almost six hours on Monday 4 October.
It was also reported on Twitter that Facebook employees were unable to enter buildings because of IoT enabled entry points:
Continue reading: https://www.twinfm.com/article/facebook-outage-implications-for-iot-devices
 

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