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A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas

A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.
A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas
Photo by Thomas Jensen / Unsplash

The internet can be more physically vulnerable than you think. Last week, thousands of people in North and Central Texas were suddenly knocked offline. The cause? A bullet. The outage hit cities all across the state, including Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. The outage affected Spectrum customers and took down their phone lines and TV services as well as the internet.

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