Facebook’s outage exposes our digital fragility | Simon Jenkins

Today’s Facebook suspension shows how vulnerable digital information is – penetrable by hackers, governments or subject to random failures

OMG Facebook is down! Down too went Instagram. It was just for an hour this morning, but the tweets screamed “Do I have to talk to someone real?”

In a manner of speaking, yes. Despite the hackers of Lizard Squad claiming credit, it is now clear that an outage at Facebook’s HQ was responsible. But the confusion was understandable after Lizard Squad had in rec...