it's a decoy.
or it might be a decoy decoy... =)
Nsa.gov is down
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#12I don't mean to be inflammatory but what's the purpose of HN postings regarding sites being down?
I've never actually been to nsa.gov and would have never known it was down. I'm sure most of the readers are in the same boat.
Even if I did access the site on a regular basis, I'd realize it was down and come back later when it might be back up.
Sometimes my favorite coffee shop is closed. I don't walk around the neighborhood carrying a poster stating that fact.
I've just never understood the purpose of these postings. "facebook" is down, "netflix" is down, etc. It doesn't actually accomplish anything.
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#13It 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.
The public nsa.gov site is just another government website. It's not like they're running it out of one of their secret data centers.
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#14For some reason more people than normal have been hitting my redirect in the last couple days. http://stats.itanimulli.com I dont think 20k could bring down the nsa, but its still strange.
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#15I don't mean to be inflammatory but what's the purpose of HN postings regarding sites being down? I've never actually been to nsa.gov and would have never known it was down. I'm sure most of the readers are in the same boat. Even if I did access the site on a regular basis, I'd realize it was down and come back later when it might be back up. Sometimes my favorite coffee shop is closed. I don't walk around the neighb…
Well for the NSA it could be related to the most recent news (maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!), thus its 'breaking news' about a hot story a lot of HN readers are interested in.
For the other sites, its very rare they go down and its the best and brightest working to keep them up so if they went down the reason why is probably something that would interest the whole community.
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#16Word on the street is that it's supposed to be back up and working smoothly by late November.
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#17Oh, i just meet you, and this is crazy, but here is http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&... so DoS maybe ?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Right, see. When you say "Relatively easy" do you mean: "it is just subtly easier that compromising the NSA itself" or: "I'm surprised it doesn't happen every day"
because I think you meant the former.
Re: Nsa.gov is down
#19I don't mean to be inflammatory but what's the purpose of HN postings regarding sites being down? I've never actually been to nsa.gov and would have never known it was down. I'm sure most of the readers are in the same boat. Even if I did access the site on a regular basis, I'd realize it was down and come back later when it might be back up. Sometimes my favorite coffee shop is closed. I don't walk around the neighb…
Well for the NSA it could be related to the most recent news (maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!), thus its 'breaking news' about a hot story a lot of HN readers are interested in. For the other sites, its very rare they go down and its the best and brightest working to keep them up so if they went down the reason why is probably something that would interest the whole community.
"maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!"
That would be newsworthy however no evidence of this was presented. It was simply "this thing is down now".
If a large site goes down, I would like to know what happened. I'd be interested to learn from the mistakes of others.
This isn't the case with this posting or others like it.
Posts of this ilk rarely have any more information than I could have received from a curl command.
Re: Nsa.gov is down
#20It's www.NSA.gov NOT NSA.gov.
www.NSA.gov IS up, at least for me.
Edit: I just talked with my American friend and it apparently really is down for them. It works for me up in Canada, though, at 23.6.100.226.