NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week’s major Internet outage and the world’s reliance on a handful of web services companies.
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Perhaps you woke up yesterday morning and found that the website you were trying to browse wasn’t working. Or maybe you went to Spotify and that was down or YouTube, or X, or ChatGPT, or even the website Downdetector, which tracks internet outages. All those went down, too. You see, they all rely on Cloudflare, which offers internet infrastructure services.
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