not being funny - if the internet goes out how does a website make this better?

> not being funny - if the internet goes out how does a website make this better?

The internet for most people doesn't depend on banking apps, or satellites. Wifi would still work great. If the internet actually did go out everywhere, how would an app help you?

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vallerie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The UK is an island nation that's reliant on undersea cables. If those cables are cut (which is something that Russia seems to threaten) your only fallback is satellite connectivity - so protecting that connectivity is pretty key to ensuring e.g people can access their money.

I would guess that was how Wes Streeting was briefed (and then completely bungled in public comms).

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QDwQ1 4 hours ago | parent [-]

ideally British banks would have their infrastructure located in Britain and therefore would not rely on undersea cables

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		Monzo (a major UK bank) use AWS and GCP. Hopefully their DCs don't fail in some way when losing access to the outside world but I would hazard a guess something goes wrong. https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-mo...

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mylies43 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thats the point, the reasons the apps dont work would be the same reason the websites dont work. They are not work around, I think apps is just mentioned because 90% of people use them over the website

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someonebaggy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Banking apps don't depend on satellites, either.