Technical 'glitch' that shut down the NYSE

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Everyone I ran into yesterday was talking about this, seems most people are not buying the official explanation, in fact, I didnt talk to one person who was not at least a bit skeptical of the whole thing!

I could understand this if it had been just one place, but for 3 totally separate places to all have the same exact thing, at the same exact time…nah, something tells me that would be highly unlikely.

I am a bit unnerved that if this was something more, they try to play it all down, make it seem like it was something benign…what happens when the next major terrorist attack happens…will they try to play that down too, make up fake explanations in hopes it doesnt cause too much public panic?

Think about it…if they had come out and told us there had been a terrorist cyber attack and it had shut down 3 major companies, one being the NYSE, I have to believe that would cause ALOT of panic, maybe even runs on banks, so I can see why they played it this way, but not agreeing it was really the right thing to do.
 
chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-united-grounds-flights-nationwide-because-of-automation-issues-20150708-story.html

Everyone I ran into yesterday was talking about this, seems most people are not buying the official explanation, in fact, I didnt talk to one person who was not at least a bit skeptical of the whole thing!

I could understand this if it had been just one place, but for 3 totally separate places to all have the same exact thing, at the same exact time…nah, something tells me that would be highly unlikely.

I am a bit unnerved that if this was something more, they try to play it all down, make it seem like it was something benign…what happens when the next major terrorist attack happens…will they try to play that down too, make up fake explanations in hopes it doesnt cause too much public panic?

Think about it…if they had come out and told us there had been a terrorist cyber attack and it had shut down 3 major companies, one being the NYSE, I have to believe that would cause ALOT of panic, maybe even runs on banks, so I can see why they played it this way, but not agreeing it was really the right thing to do.
Whatever caused the “glitches” the crisis management was horrible. Leaving everybody in the dark about the cause of the problems did nothing but foster speculation about attacks. They didn’t have to be super specific, but at least they should have given under general explanation about the what actually went wrong. Did they lose a server? A botched software update? Anything, other than an obvious lie, would have been better than what they did give.
 
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