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		dgan 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing > Centralized services don't decrease redundancy Alright, but it creates a failure correlation where previously there was none

silvestrov 16 days ago [–]

Have you ever heard of the "sendmail worm", aka Morris Worm ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

You can definitely have failure correlation without having centralized services.

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