🐨 Firewall upgrade at telco linked to deaths in Australia
｢ Australian telco Optus says its staff may not have followed established processes when a firewall upgrade they conducted resulted in customers not being able to call emergency services for 14 hours – a period during which it is thought three of the carrier’s customers died after trying to seek help, according to the company's CEO ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/21/optus_emergency_call_incident/
