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

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[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this.

It's pretty clear this incident has highlighted a myriad of very important issues.

It's likely more productive to discuss the other issues in their own threads - this thread is clearly focused on the cashless problem.

[–] Steve@communick.news -2 points 4 months ago

That's exactly what we were discussing.
But it doesn't matter any more.