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Re: BBC is down

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Post by dantillberg » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

binoyxj wrote: post #8

What happened to all the tweets? Did I miss something? https://twitter.com/BBC

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/576735915856506880 -- "Apologies, as we are experiencing technical problems on the BBC News website. We are working hard to resolve the issues."

Re: BBC is down

#12

Post by philpoore » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

philippnagel wrote: post #2

#BringBackClarkson ?

Did wonder this..?

Although its was apparently the Mirror that was pushing the story not Anon... 800k people have signed their petition in 4 days :s

src: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/anonymous-to-ddos-attack-t...

petition: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

Re: BBC is down

#13

Post by philpoore » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

philippnagel wrote: post #2

#BringBackClarkson ?

Whats happened to Anon if its fighting for Steak...?

Re: BBC is down

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Post by philpoore » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

Seems more like an attack now...

BBC Twitter has been wiped clean...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202673

Re: BBC is down

#15

Post by freemanon » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

sunilkumarc wrote: post #9

binoyxj wrote: post #8

What happened to all the tweets? Did I miss something? https://twitter.com/BBC

Even i cannot see any tweets in their page!

Maybe this instead: https://twitter.com/BBCNews

Re: BBC is down

#16

Post by kenrick95 » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:25 PM UTC

It's up again!

Re: BBC is down

#17

Post by jacquesm » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:25 PM UTC

An earlier story on the bbc homepage was 'How to really break the internet'.

Re: BBC is down

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

sunilkumarc wrote: post #9

binoyxj wrote: post #8

What happened to all the tweets? Did I miss something? https://twitter.com/BBC

Even i cannot see any tweets in their page!

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Re: BBC is down

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Post by binoyxj » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

'The disastrous events that would break the internet' published by BBC on 11 March 2015 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150310-how-to-break-the-in...

Re: BBC is down

#20

Post by nly » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

binoyxj wrote: post #19

'The disastrous events that would break the internet' published by BBC on 11 March 2015 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150310-how-to-break-the-in...

Probably easier to worm your way in to privileged networks and launch a BGP attack that physically attack exchanges like LINX. Isn't BGP essentially trusted?