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Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

did they do something special. most places I have been to when the network is down it just does not work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

national chain. I think it stored the transactions for transmission, and in-case it didn't go through we also had the imprints as proof of having the card at the time of transaction. I assume it processed them as a different option instead of instant approval, and probably has different liability implications if the transaction is later denied. Being a big company, was probably fine.