Comments on Profile Post by penguins

  1. Cryptowolf
    Cryptowolf
    Maybe someone really wants the book of face to have a timeout? It is odd for an outage of this scale.
    Oct 4, 2021
  2. Qildail
    Qildail
    Just shows how fragile this whole contraption is. CenturyLink dorked up their BGP routes last year so badly they had to be unplugged from the rest of the internet to regain control of their routers.
    Oct 4, 2021
  3. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    From where I sit, in front of my PC, and as a layman, it's looks not so much as facebook/whatsapp/instagram is down, but more like the technical internet is refusing to talk to talk to them. Or about them.

    Like... DNS is saying, "Who? Never heard of them!"
    Oct 4, 2021
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  4. Azimuth
    Azimuth
    I think their redundant backups were compromised and bots were mining data or something like that, so they had to shut some stuff
    down.
    Oct 5, 2021
  5. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    @Azimuth, I think it was far less competent than that.

    We have discovered that three different public-facing-products all ran on the same system. We then heard that even stuff like office-door security locks were affected because they ran on the same system too. Who designs systems like that? Competent IT folk? Or... Just my hunch... a megalomaniac boss who is not as clever as he thinks.
    Oct 5, 2021
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  6. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    ... Facebook is his hammer and the whole world looks like nails.
    Oct 5, 2021
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