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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#51
post #15

I wonder what kind of economic damage all these recent outages add up to. How much harm are they causing, in terms of productivity and value. Facebook's social networks I'd imagine are less impactful than the slack outages, which could completely cripple a company if they were primarily remote.

Ad content (images and video) seems to be loading fine on the iOS App. So the damage is likely minimal.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#53
post #15

I wonder what kind of economic damage all these recent outages add up to. How much harm are they causing, in terms of productivity and value. Facebook's social networks I'd imagine are less impactful than the slack outages, which could completely cripple a company if they were primarily remote.

Ad content (images and video) seems to be loading fine on the iOS App. So the damage is likely minimal.

but who's browsing Instagram while posts aren't loading?

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#54
post #52

Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.

And? That’s why cash exists.

In NL cash transactions of 10k+ already needed to be reported to the authorities.

But a new law will forbid any cash transactions higher than 3k.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#55
post #39

I first noticed Instagram then realized it was Facebook and their other properties such as What's App as well. Is very odd all of these major outages this week. By Cloudflare at least said it was an employee error, so assuming it's not subtle attacks by other countries unless companies like Cloudflare are required to legally provide an alternate story for national security.

According to Digital Attack [1] it seems the world is constantly on DDoS. [1] https://www.digitalattackmap.com

"Notable Recent Attacks" from 2016, the site is dead and shows fancy graphic.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#56

Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.

I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#57
post #34
post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Why curious? Is there anything to make you believe there is foul play?

Curious because those are big services people expect to see up 99% of the time. To have them all fail in the same 48h is a curious coincidence.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#59
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? That’s why cash exists.

In NL cash transactions of 10k+ already needed to be reported to the authorities. But a new law will forbid any cash transactions higher than 3k.

whats the reasoning behind the new law?

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#60
post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

So the options are:

1) a secret cyber-war is going on...

2) Some entity is installing new spying slurps

3) An (critical) IX that we werent aware of is having major issues... and we dont know who to blame on that one...

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