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Digital Inferno: The British Library’s IT Catastrophe & Lessons for the Tech World
Facing a digital inferno, the British Library’s ransomware saga is no Library of Alexandria—but it’s a modern epic of IT catastrophe. Read on for a tale of digital demise and a Magna Carta of fails.
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Who needs barbarians when you have ransomware? The British Library's IT woes are like a modern-day Library of Alexandria catastrophe, minus the flames and more the slow burn of organizational mismanagement and legacy systems. It's the kind of drama that would have ancient scholars tossing in their graves, or at least furiously updating their scrolls.
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