Worldwide IT meltdown shows the planet’s overwhelming reliance on flaky technology is perilous

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WE’VE all had bad days at work. But ­imagine you crashed the global economy — triggering mayhem, misery and multi-trillion-dollar losses — by releasing a dodgy bit of computer code.

It is grimly ironic that the very firm charged with protecting precious IT systems from cyberattack is to blame for history’s biggest tech disaster.

But it should trouble all governments that the modern world operates on such a knife-edge 24/7.