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Letter from the publisher: Delivery of Union-Tribune affected by computer virus
- emayljames 8y agoThis site is geo blocked in Europe.
- chriscampbell 8y agoCompliance for GDPR
- logicchains 8y agoQuestion for anyone who knows: would it be against European regulation to paste some key paragraphs from the article here to summarise?
- catacombs 8y agoNo. It's just text.
- Dreami 8y agoIt is even blocked in Switzerland, which is NOT part of the EU, merely in Europe...
- jSully24 8y agoFrom the post: “The virus affected computer systems of Tribune Publishing Co. Those systems are still shared by the Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times under a service agreement with Tribune, which owned both publications prior to their sale in June. The Union-Tribune and Times are now privately held, but are still transitioning away from the Tribune systems. The attack seemed to begin late Thursday night and by Friday had spread to critical areas needed to publish the paper. Technology teams from both companies made significant progress against the threat, but were unable to clear all systems before press time.”
- afnasofion 8y agoAll military agencies, including that of the United States will be watching this with interest. The ability to stop the presses for a newspaper critical of the administration on a given day, say before the start of a war or around the time of a coup, is a very useful capability. It allows an important story to get drowned in the news cycle and can reduce the level of outrage at the population level by desynchronizing it.