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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks ADB.

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Speaker 2: Apart from my beautiful wife, of course, the last person

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Speaker 2: I thought of before I dozed off last night was Dave.

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Speaker 2: Dave had texted me a few hours earlier, when I

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Speaker 2: was filling in for Heather on newstalk's dB Drive yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: to say that he'd been driving home from Livin to

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Speaker 2: Palmerston North when he had stopped off to fill up

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Speaker 2: the car with petrol and he had encountered a bit

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Speaker 2: of a problem. Dave explained that he'd filled the tank,

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Speaker 2: but as he walked over to the foyer and tried

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Speaker 2: to transfer money between his bank accounts in order to

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Speaker 2: pay for his petrol, his internet banking wouldn't work, so

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Speaker 2: there he was stranded, waiting for an enormous global technology

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Speaker 2: outage to be sorted so that he could transfer the cash,

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Speaker 2: pay for his fuel, and finally get back home. Although

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Speaker 2: some of the tech outages seem to have been fixed,

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Speaker 2: they are still affecting thousands upon thousands of significant operations

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Speaker 2: around the world this morning, airports, airlines, hospitals, emergency call centers,

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Speaker 2: TV and radio stations, banks, Who's to say, Dave isn't

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Speaker 2: still out there madly swiping at his phone, refreshing a

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Speaker 2: blank page on his Internet banking waiting, still waiting. The outage,

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Speaker 2: of course, was caused by this company, crowd Strike. It's

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Speaker 2: a cybersecurity company which is ironically charged with protecting its clients.

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Speaker 2: And there is no reporting at this stage to suggest

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Speaker 2: that this problem was caused by like a malicious act

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Speaker 2: or a cyber attank, anything like that. It's just a

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Speaker 2: plain old mistake, a plain old era, and already some

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Speaker 2: experts are describing it as the single largest IT outage

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Speaker 2: in history. Quote this is what Y two k wishes

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Speaker 2: it was, and said on Reddit. Tell you what, though,

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Speaker 2: it is a salient reminder just how fragile and interconnected

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Speaker 2: many of our modern digital systems really are. A see.

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Speaker 2: I would describe myself as being kind of mid tier

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Speaker 2: when it comes to the uptake of technology. I'm not

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Speaker 2: a total yuppie, but I have a chat GPT account,

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Speaker 2: I back up my data on the cloud, I use

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Speaker 2: Apple Pay on my phone, and I absolutely abhor cash.

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Speaker 2: I hate cash notes coins seriously. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: all of that clutter, Ugh, I want to go about

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Speaker 2: my business with the fewest things possible. I don't think

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Speaker 2: I've had a wallet that was actually capable of carrying

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Speaker 2: hard currency in at least fifteen years. But if the

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Speaker 2: last thing I thought of before I hit the hay

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Speaker 2: last night was poor old Dave, miserable in the dim

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Speaker 2: light of a Livin petrol station forecourt, the first thing

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Speaker 2: I thought of this morning was how to avoid Dave's predicament.

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Speaker 2: On the way to the studio, I stopped by an

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Speaker 2: ATM and withdrew a few hundred dollars in cash, not

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Speaker 2: a crazy amount, just enough for a tank of gas.

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