“Too big too fail” say the Anglo-Saxons about these systemic enterprises whose fall would cause immeasurable serial damage.
Large banks and financial institutions that supply the economy as a whole fall into this category.
Facebook's computer tribulations show us how the world's largest social network, with over 3 billion users, is too big to fail.
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Mark Zuckerberg's group is actually dangerously systemic.
If the authorities can stop the fall of a large bank or an overindebted real estate giant (Beijing is monitoring the Evergrande affair very closely), on the other hand they are powerless in the event of a computer failure.
By nature, cyber blackout is unpredictable.
Worse, the risk of default grows with the complexity of the Internet and attacks.
Little by little we are discovering the vulnerability of our digital world even as our dependence on
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