A modern world hit the brick wall and step backward in time. The level of technical forensics in this CommsDay report outlines the post-mortem of a massive communication failure traced to a single, localized point of origin. (Spoiler alert: an NTP stratum server was promoted from Stratum 3, a 'middle manager' meant to take orders from a higher-level Stratum 2 server and pass the time down the chain to generating its own time like a rogue CEO, breaking the chain of trust.) This was followed by a brutal Senate inquiry. In a nutshell, Telstra's internal culture allowed a cowboy engineer to bypass internal controls. A 15-year-old server taking down an entire network sounds eerily similar to the global Facebook outage. https://telsoc.org/news/telsoc-newsletter-commsday-story-of-the-week-17-2-2-... An action replay of last Friday’s hearing can be accessed at, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WE_-C7pzY enjoy, /vrode