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Title: What happened this weekend?
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 31 August 2020, 08:12:56
News traffic is suddenly down significantly >>??

Deep State ? Information control ? Political Coup ? Hitler Trump ? Singularity ?
Title: Re: What happened this weekend?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 31 August 2020, 08:15:22
I never trust the media. Period.
Title: Re: What happened this weekend?
Post by: Sintpinty on Mon, 31 August 2020, 08:55:31
Robinhood and ameritrade is down.. here comes the wall street bets users going to smash a wall
Title: Re: What happened this weekend?
Post by: Kavik on Mon, 31 August 2020, 14:40:46
I never trust the media. Period.

<rant>
It is so insanely and obviously slanted now that it's not even subtext that it's trying to galvanize one side or the other. Stories now have to identify each person mentioned as either black or white (white meaning "bad guy" of course unless followed by "and an ally"). Every single person is either alt-right or antifa as if normal people with sensibility and good intent don't exist.
</rant>
Title: Re: What happened this weekend?
Post by: Leslieann on Mon, 31 August 2020, 23:12:08
Level 3 a backbone provider and CDN (content delivery network provider) went down due to possible DDOS.

Considering they are now owned by Centurylink, I blame incompetence.
While not the worst telecom I've worked with they're certainly near the top of that list.
Title: Re: What happened this weekend?
Post by: yui on Tue, 01 September 2020, 01:34:46
Level 3 a backbone provider and CDN (content delivery network provider) went down due to possible DDOS.

Considering they are now owned by Centurylink, I blame incompetence.
While not the worst telecom I've worked with they're certainly near the top of that list.
well yeah for a high level CDN to be sensitive to DDOS attacks there was incompetence somewhere... or one mistake that slipped by, can also happen, although a competent audit should see it and a competent management should require that...