It's weird that americans always seem to have this sort of siege mentality. We already know the causes of the other outages, and they have nothing to do with the foreign interference boogeyman.
“We” don’t know the causes, only what was reported.
I’ve worked on a lot of old systems needing to be updated, migrated, or sunset. For sure it’s 99% of the time due to management being lazy. I get that.
And I know correlation/causation, but hey my orig comment was a simple curiosity.
Sure, my nature distrusts what a corporation says because it’s always filtered through stockholder functions, but I still think “3 major airline issues in as many months” is kind of hilarious. Even if they seem to be in different facets.
Does this happen often but only now is it reported to “us”? Or is this truly an odd and rare timing?
OK, but in Southwest's case, you had former and current employees from various positions within the company publicly coming out and lambasting Southwest for the failure to actually invest in upgrading their scheduling system that led to the outage. It wasn't just a corporation coming out and going, "Here's what we hope you believe happened," it was pissed off employees publicly fucked off that their years of complaints went unheard and now they were all paying the price for being ignored.
>Or is this truly an odd and rare timing?
It's just odd/rare. I would wager that your brain's rush to try and tie them together like this is just it's way of trying to make sense of something it normally doesn't see.
Meaning - a system is so old, slow, bug, and vulnerability prone a bad actor can pen-test around and mess stuff up?
Are you sure you are not seeing selection bias because the majority of users on this site are Americans?