[hilbert42]

Addendum. Well, as predicted, the Government announced it's holding an inquiry into Optus. That's less than 24 hours after the event and has to be a speed record for Govt. Such speed gives a good indication of how big this kerfuffle was and how bad the public's perception of Optus and Govt. is for allowing the failure to happen. The questions everyone is asking is why wasn't there a backup plan and why did the emergency phone numbers also fail as they are supposed to be protected (isolated) when such outages happen.

Many are saying Govt. is largely at fault and asleep at the wheel for not keeping stricter tabs on these telcos.

Given there are three major networks in Australia and a few minor ones and that only Optus went down the level of disruption was alarming. Essentially, much of the country was in turmoil for better part of a day.

If a comparatively small outage can cause such disruption to a country then just imagine the chaos that'll follow when the next Carrington Event hits us.