Mwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy · 5 months agoGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up1564arrow-down136cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipbitcoincryptocurrencyhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1528arrow-down1external-linkGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comMwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy · 5 months agomessage-square197fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipbitcoincryptocurrencyhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareganymedelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-25 months ago Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this. It’s pretty clear this incident has highlighted a myriad of very important issues. It’s likely more productive to discuss the other issues in their own threads - this thread is clearly focused on the cashless problem.
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·5 months agoThat’s exactly what we were discussing. But it doesn’t matter any more.
It’s pretty clear this incident has highlighted a myriad of very important issues.
It’s likely more productive to discuss the other issues in their own threads - this thread is clearly focused on the cashless problem.
That’s exactly what we were discussing.
But it doesn’t matter any more.