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<p dir="auto">The report, which claims that “American ‘black boxes’ failed at zero hour of the attack on Isfahan,” concerns devices that Iran claims either rebooted or dropped offline despite the country having already been disconnected from the global Internet, a fact it says &quot;indicates deep sabotage.&quot;</p>
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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik devices allegedly rebooted or disconnected during the conflict.</p>
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<p dir="auto">If you buy a stolen computer, and there is a virus on it, you don't really have any claim against the computer manufacturer.</p>
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