Poor coding and GUI caused America's largest-ever telephone outage

Nicholas Fearn
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Poorly coded critical system helped Level 3 to accidentally blacklist itself

The largest-ever telephone outage in the US was caused by poor coding and an equally poor graphical user interface (GUI), according to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) official investi...

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