Facebook down: Major outage hits Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, too
"Facebook said its engineers determined the problem originated with a networking issue that interrupted communications between its data centers. And with the servers unable to communicate, the problems mounted, causing outages across its systems and its three major social platforms that are now being brought back up - slowly, Facebook said."
As an IT professional, this is bullshit. There is not one or even a dozen switch/routers/servers/name servers,relay towers, fiber lines but hundreds if not thousands. As with the internet, there is no single point of failure that would impact all of facebook worldwide at once, except compliance to an order.
The network I manage is minuscule in comparison to FB and I recently recovered from a network storm which took me 2.5 days to isolate and fix. Yes, we were down but we also have a much much lesser amount of networking hardware.
I hopeful that this event means people have been arrested across the planet, that drives have been scoured and that names and evidence of sex trafficking of all manner has been confiscated and scrubbed out of online existence.
I truly hope this is evidence gathering and that this is only a first step in the path to recovering normalcy worldwide.
As an IT professional, this is bullshit. There is not one or even a dozen switch/routers/servers/name servers,relay towers, fiber lines but hundreds if not thousands. As with the internet, there is no single point of failure that would impact all of facebook worldwide at once, except compliance to an order.
The network I manage is minuscule in comparison to FB and I recently recovered from a network storm which took me 2.5 days to isolate and fix. Yes, we were down but we also have a much much lesser amount of networking hardware.
I hopeful that this event means people have been arrested across the planet, that drives have been scoured and that names and evidence of sex trafficking of all manner has been confiscated and scrubbed out of online existence.
I truly hope this is evidence gathering and that this is only a first step in the path to recovering normalcy worldwide.
The KP 4 we had this weekend wasn't enough to disrupt the system, so you can't blame the sun this time...you'd have to blame it on the man.
Question is: was a good man or a bad man or worse...just a scary ruse for the unaware.
And it could be part of an emerging test pattern for what’s to come — which is repeated attacks on the global financial system not merely to steal wealth but also to disrupt the global economy and destroy the current system.
“Guggenheim Partners ($325 billion AUM) Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd warned this week that the top economic risk is a cyber attack against the global payments system,” according to Forward Observer, a private subscription-based intelligence firm. “The global payments system includes financial infrastructure like the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire, SWIFT, Euroclear, and other systems that process financial transactions.”
The report noted that Minerd is putting the likelihood of a major cyberattack against the global financial system extremely high — at more than 50 percent.
“It would appear that we are extremely vulnerable to having an attack against the payment system of the financial markets… [I]f there was a synchronized attack, we would essentially bring the global financial market to its knees,” he said.
“The first response would probably be that securities prices would crash, and the second is we would probably have to close all the exchanges in the world in order to figure out how to restore the global payments system,” he added.
Our world is about to be rocked in a way it hasn’t since the Great Depression.
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-10-04...
But to the subject of this post...consider: Ep. 2592b - Communication Blackout On A Massive Scale, Pain & Truth Coming, Buckle Up.
https://rumble.com/vnbr73-ep.-2592b-c...
I recommend that everyone get alternative communications gear, such as a 2 meter Ham radio.
Why? To allow tighter regulation on what can/can't be said on FB.
https://rumble.com/vncqpp-oct-5-2021-...
I'll see if I can find a link.
When their DNS went down (accidentally if you believe Facebook's staff but I suspect deliberate action by someone inside), Facebook's employees could not get into their offices to diagnose or fix the problem. None of their key cards were working that day.
Then there was the so-called whistleblower, interviewed by CBS' "60 Minutes" and by Congress. She wants Facebook to block more material and expel more of its users.
And finally, sometime in the last week, somebody posted on a hacker forum an offer to sell the private data of all 1.5 billion people with Facebook accounts.
Any or all of these four events might or might not be related to each other. Did the whistleblower try to dramatize her story by bringing the service down? Or was it the hacker trying to dramatize his offering? Or could some other faction within Facebook have been trying to harm the company?
Pass the popcorn.
It pleases me to see that Gab gained at least several thousand new users that day.