We all heard about the big Facebook outage, but seemingly it happens on other sites too – and we don’t always hear about it. I get a bit concerned when the internet banking site comes up with an error message, because I wonder if the site has been compromised in some way. And it can be a little inconvenient at times, too.
No doubt, banks, like everyone else, have constant issues maintaining the integrity of their sites, so I console myself that it’s in everyone’s best interests for me to suffer a little inconvenience by not being able to have immediate access each and every time I log in.
Quite coincidentally, this report appeared just after I’d prepared the first draft of this post. For the authorities to say that it’s “almost inevitable that at some point the defences of a significant financial institution will be breached” is obviously of concern but I guess it’s necessary to be realistic about what’s going on in the world.
Musings and Mutterings 