‘Very, very alarming’: B.C. technology expert weighs in on Rogers’ outage
Global News
Andy Baryer, the former host and producer for GetConnected, Canada’s longest-running technology show, said the Rogers’ service failure highlights many concerns experts have.
A B.C. freelance technology journalist gave his thoughts on the massive Rogers’ service failure.
Andy Baryer, the former host and producer for GetConnected, Canada’s longest-running technology show, said the Rogers’ service failure highlights many concerns experts have.
“It’s been about 24 hours and we still don’t know what the cause was,” Baryer told Global News on Saturday morning.
“On Friday, I suspected it was a cyber attack, but it doesn’t look like that’s the case (now).”
He continued, “a company called Cloudflare, which manages internet traffic across the world, suspects it’s an internal error.”
Cloudflare posted on its site saying as much.
“Based on what we’re seeing and similar incidents in the past, we believe this is likely to be an internal error, not a cyber attack,” Cloudflare staff wrote in a blog post.
Baryer said a failure as large as this is not only concerning but head-scratching as there are supposed to be protocols in place to prevent such a large failure.