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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by unethical_ban »

linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

> "We are trying to gather information, we are making a bunch of client phone calls, we will know after we make those calls."

I think that is a yes, and he getting ahead by saying "Yes and we have no idea why or ETA so let us do our job".

Granted, they should have a status page.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by bduerst »

cronix wrote: post #71
popz41 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.

That's why it's called PRISM. It's exactly what you describe. Splitting an optical signal into 2 using, basically, a prism. One signal goes out to the net as normal, the other goes to their own datacenters, that they keep continually building and expanding. The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security. Check em out. Look at the size and cost of them. Some are over a million sq. ft. That's a lo…

No, it was called MUSCULAR. PRISM is different.

Also, the majority of tech and data companies have closed this loophole by encrypting traffic between data centers. Nobody thought it was necessary to do it before over dark fiber before because, hey, who was listening? (answer: the NSA was)

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by 9999px »

aviv wrote: post #19
BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Likely a firmware issue with the NSA intercept devices.

Are you basing that on anything or just BS'ing?

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by knicholes »

buboard wrote: post #143
Implicated wrote: post #72

Facebook's own status dashboard ( https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ ) showed no issues or outtage just 30 min ago. I run a messenger bot platform - the webhooks stopped being delivered _hours_ ago... nothing on their status page until it had been down for hours. Their current issue... "We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are inv…

you get what you pay for

If you're inferring that Facebook is "free," I'd strongly disagree. Data is the currency of today, and they're swimming in it.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by buboard »

knicholes wrote: post #155
buboard wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you get what you pay for

If you're inferring that Facebook is "free," I'd strongly disagree. Data is the currency of today, and they're swimming in it.

fb platform is free

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by subcosmos »

:/

Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096

And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by nimir »

new_guy wrote: post #91
nimir wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a big fan of social media too but you will be suprised ... For example here in Sudan (East Africa) the country has been under continuous protests for over 2 months now (53 dead, 4k+ detained, 500+ injured) with strong censorship from the regime & silents from the internatinal community. So facebook, whatsapp & twitter are the only media left for the people to fight for freedom —> every Thursday is the main p…

No disrespect intended, but what's the rationale behind protesting just one day a week? It just seems completely unproductive, people can't affect any kind of change when they're scheduling it between watching the football and eating big macs.

As I said: "Main protests on Thursday" so no, Sudanese ppl don't protest once a week & btw People get shot here just for standing out and peacfully protesting so its far a way from the picture you have in mind. I've put a hashtag where you can see photos/videos & learn more and ofcourse share productivity tips

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by 0xffff2 »

benatkin wrote: post #141

I got my github two factor auth SMS two hours late. Fortunately it was just my old laptop. I wonder if it was related. Good reminder to set up an authenticator app on my new phone so I don’t have to rely on SMS!

Which you should do anyway because relying on SMS is only slightly more secure than not having 2FA enabled at all...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by HlessClaudesman »

aviv wrote: post #19
BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Likely a firmware issue with the NSA intercept devices.

Hail Ghidra!
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