The global network has become dangerously unstable [telecom]

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By Niall Ferguson

The world today is like a giant network on the verge of a cataclysmic outage.

The president of the United States tweets that his own intelligence agencies are illegally leaking classified information to The New York Times about his campaign's communications with the Russian government, but he insists that it's all "fake news." (Read that again, slowly.)