Meta outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Meta outage

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Post by meindnoch » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

kerirenee21 wrote: post #306

meindnoch wrote: post #224

This should be considered an act of war.

What do you mean by this? I find all of this very odd. Everything that’s been happening.

You're witnessing the greatest attack on Internet infrastructure in history.

Amphibious assault on Taiwan imminent.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by getlawgdon » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

meindnoch wrote: post #233

Meta stock in freefall. Going short at 20x leverage.

Can't tell if serious, but I've seen worse trades. Wouldn't call this a freefall yet: https://imgur.com/a/0UN3HZa

Re: Meta outage

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Post by ExoticPearTree » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

dmk wrote: post #303

Google login also seems to be having issues, multiple people reported to me that the login isn’t working and they’ve been logged out of their Google accounts.

Yes, I tried logging in today in two distinct Google accounts on separate Chrome profiles and it would sign me out in about ~ 5 seconds after logging in. And the login process was very sluggish.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by Liquidor » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

revscat wrote: post #270

vincnetas wrote: post #213

every one panicked that they got hacked. i got a slim hope that i also got hacked and that i will not bother to recover my account and just roll without FB :) im too week to quit my self.

Maybe post your password to Twitter or something. Let it escape into the wild, where it can be observed in its natural state.

I know your intention is to help, but please don't share your FB password (if that wasn't obvious already lol). Letting randoms log into your FB account will just have massive consequences with your friends and family thinking it's you talking to them etc.

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Post by wongarsu » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #326

jgehrcke wrote: post #305

Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp

This shouldn't affect europe. It just stopped working

Somebody might have fat-fingered a BGP configuration while trying to improve traffic routing that was impacted by the cut cables.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by brk » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

bigwheeler wrote: post #334

Tip for Meta engineers: when your service is failing, don't just log people out and prevent logins. Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in. The public might even come up with a catchy name for the whale.

This is a great idea! I know that I was flailing about trying to figure out why I couldn't login, so I'd suggest calling it a "Flail Whale".

Re: Meta outage

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Post by daniyelcr1212 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

My service is down

Re: Meta outage

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Post by aaomidi » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

00deadbeef wrote: post #271

aaomidi wrote: post #85

This might be the end of Facebook if it lasts long enough. Invalidating people’s sessions on apps? That’s a HUGE cost. There’s a huge % of users that won’t be able to get back in.

It might not have actually invalidated the session

It does on the app. Logs you out.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by annoyingnoob » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

I don't use Meta's services but I have a number of co-workers that are all convinced that their Meta accounts have been hacked.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by pksebben » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #316

jgehrcke wrote: post #305

Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp

time to move away from undersea cables to satellites.

We have satellites. We use cables b/c they lack the speed and bandwidth necessary to support the total requirements of the modern internet. Satellite-only is only feasible if you're fine with going back to waiting minutes for your saucy jpegs to load (elder millennials, you know what I'm talkin' about).