Nsa.gov is down

Yep. I noticed the domain going flaky in August (http://aspensmonster.com/2013/08/23/nsa-gov-is-down-friday-a...). That time, it looked like the Akamai Edge network ended up serving it for a while.

Re: Nsa.gov is down

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Post by gry » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 3:44 AM UTC

It sure is. It's been down for hours.

    http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nsa.gov.html

Funny thing is, outages for GitHub and its ilk hit HN in minutes. Either way, the transparency in the post-mortem is more valuable and telling than the outage. Organizations need to prove themselves with transparency to build and earn trust.

Yet, one of these things is not like the other.

Re: Nsa.gov is down

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Post by krapp » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 3:45 AM UTC

GhotiFish wrote: post #6

zombio wrote: post #2

Mandatory relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/932/

I never understood that comic. You would think preventing traffic reaching a website would be harder than tearing down a poster. edit: Wrong direction.

The point is that the "poster" (or website) is an irrelevance and "tearing it down" amounts to minor vandalism.

Re: Nsa.gov is down

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Post by 8ig8 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 3:45 AM UTC

GhotiFish wrote: post #6

zombio wrote: post #2

Mandatory relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/932/

I never understood that comic. You would think preventing traffic reaching a website would be harder than tearing down a poster. edit: Wrong direction.

Hacking the NSA website is not hacking the NSA. Hacking a website is relatively easy and not that interesting to people who deal with servers day-to-day.