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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#12

Post by stevenhubertron »

the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#13

Post by the-dude »

stevenhubertron wrote: post #12
the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

Actually, I started wondering the last few minutes : what if the next worldwar would start on the internet? Or is this a common assumption already?

I had not connected Huawei to my conspiracy theory yet, but just did.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#15

Post by kache_ »

I wonder what kind of economic damage all these recent outages add up to. How much harm are they causing, in terms of productivity and value. Facebook's social networks I'd imagine are less impactful than the slack outages, which could completely cripple a company if they were primarily remote.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by cronix »

One interesting thing I noticed is the ALT text that is displayed in place of the missing images. It shows how their image recognition is classifying everything. I guess a lot of my friends drink as a lot of the alt text was like "Image may contain: drink"

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#17

Post by dreamcompiler »

the-dude wrote: post #13
stevenhubertron wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

Actually, I started wondering the last few minutes : what if the next worldwar would start on the internet? Or is this a common assumption already? I had not connected Huawei to my conspiracy theory yet, but just did.

People who make defense policy have been assuming the answer to that question was "yes" for about 20 years now. It's sometimes described as "cyber precedes kinetic."

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1215.html

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#18

Post by smaili »

One interesting thing I've noticed from this (not sure if this is just my experience or if others noticed as well) but none of the ads seem to be impacted by this. Certainly makes me wonder if those are on a more prioritized and entirely separate infra and SLA that is designed to be more resilient and highly available.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by the-dude »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #17
the-dude wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I started wondering the last few minutes : what if the next worldwar would start on the internet? Or is this a common assumption already? I had not connected Huawei to my conspiracy theory yet, but just did.

People who make defense policy have been assuming the answer to that question was "yes" for about 20 years now. It's sometimes described as "cyber precedes kinetic." https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1215.html

Thank you. So we are basically waiting for a Twitter outage.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by the-dude »

cronix wrote: post #16

One interesting thing I noticed is the ALT text that is displayed in place of the missing images. It shows how their image recognition is classifying everything. I guess a lot of my friends drink as a lot of the alt text was like "Image may contain: drink"

I noticed those too. Except it contained something else.
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