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Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by grishka »

dividedbyzero wrote: post #193
grishka wrote: post #187

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Is there a group that saves and reuploads the same photo every day, compressing it into oblivion?

If you start one, please share a link.

There is one in VK (not mine), been going on since 2012: https://vk.com/putineveryday

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by erik_seaberg »

neura wrote: post #184
erik_seaberg wrote: post #167

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5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.” My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

Please, please tell me this is a true story. It's amazing.

I can only verify being unable to get the wi-fi password. Otherwise it’s all secondhand, I wasn’t on call.

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Post by viraptor »

londons_explore wrote: post #154
viraptor wrote: post #91

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At that size of a company there's usually blast radius restrictions and per-role permissions. I don't expect anyone has enough rights to "delete Facebook" on their own.

I guarantee you that there are 100+ people who could take Facebook down for 24+ hours if they went rogue. For example the people responsible for the bootup scripts of Facebook infra could sneak in a "0 0 1 * * /bin/rm -rf ${TEMPDIR}/*" into crontab... They'd set the commit message as "clear out temp monthly" and it would get deployed across the entire fleet till in the first of next month every disk at Facebook gets…

This wouldn't "delete" Facebook or many much smaller companies. It would result in maybe a small outage and get restored immediately in most cases. It's also an infra change you'd need across many systems - this isn't possible as a single change "across entire fleet".

This is not how non-trivial services work.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by fishnchips »

arcticbull wrote: post #94
fishnchips wrote: post #57

Quickly, let your FB engineering friends know. If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well and they're none the wiser.

I bet FB Workplace went down too heh [1] [1] https://workplace.com

I'm wondering if they're still using IRC internally.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by reaperducer »

dylan604 wrote: post #186
reaperducer wrote: post #179

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Coincidentally, I'm in the same predicament with Facebook, itself. I can't log in to Facebook because Facebook wants approval from the Duo Mobile 2FA app. The 2FA app won't approve the login because it wants a code that can only be obtained by logging in to Facebook. Solution: Deleted both Duo Mobile and Facebook apps. Moved on with my life.

isn't that like throwin the baby out with the bath water? i've never had problems with duo mobile, but then i don't use FB so i've never seen how it behaves with FB. so dump FB, but why dump duo mobile?

Because the only thing I used it for was to login to Facebook. All of my other 2FA is through other methods.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by 908B64B197 »

gh-throw wrote: post #66
cure wrote: post #35

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Seriously, they host the status page on their own infrastructure? That's ... not smart.

Every company's actual status page (and news feed) is on Twitter, no matter what else they say. I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page. Probably Facebook. Notably, Facebook hasn't updated theirs, though.

> I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page

What are the odds it's some IRC bot running under someone's desk?

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