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"Runs since 1998. What an uptime. 28 years!" "Wow! But it's old. Runs FreeBSD 3.4. There are no patches for it. For decades. Switch it off." "Someone installed NTP on it." "Don't know. Can't be in use. Just switch it off." "Okay, let's see what happens" A day later in the news: "Australia came to a standstill when its biggest mobile network hit an outage. Trains, EFTPOS machines and emergency calls stopped working." #microfiction #Telstra