Might sound a bit ancient and conservative but for this particular use case, the good old Radio technology (MW/SW, AM/FM, etc) is a better candidate than the regular Internet. It's a tad more difficult to hack or DDOS compared to Internet as there is no single point of failure. If you broadcast on a SW frequency, for example, they will have to block/jam it in every single country where those waves traverse.
DDoS attack on Twitter, when Musk was going to interview Trump
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#12The Register has weighed in with a Yeah, Right skeptical attitude:
The Register has found no evidence of a denial of service attack directed at X. Check Point Software's live cyber threat map does not record unusual levels of activity at the time of writing. NetScout's real-time DDoS map recorded only small attacks on the US.
If a DDoS was indeed the reason for the delayed start of the event, it appears not to have impacted the rest of X's operations – there were plenty of posts commenting on the problems with the Space occupied by the interview. And Musk was tweeting from the very network said to be under attack.
They've also thrown shade on the numbers:
The interview commenced some 40 minutes after its advertised time. Live audience statistics reported 1.1 to 1.3 million attendees during the portions of the event The Register observed – although during the stream Trump claimed that the event had an audience of 60 million or more, exceeding targets of 25 million.Re: DDoS attack on Twitter, when Musk was going to interview Trump
#13It's a Musktruth. A bit like a Trumptruth.
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#14excuses for bad tech. Elon is liar
Your statement about an excuse for bad tech is factually wrong. The X edge teams were indeed responding to quite a number of well coordinated ddos attempts. Arelion, GTT, and a number of other carriers have been assisting in blackholing.
Please provide references for these claims or don't claim factuality.
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#15I’m… a little shocked Trump agreed to do this, after the DeSantis fiasco?
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#16Why is this [flagged]? Sounds like The Register has plausible reasons to also, like the OP, question if this is genuinely caused by a DDoS attack.
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#17Who does Twitter/X use for DDoS mitigation?
Akamai?
Cloudflare?
Anyone know?
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#18Might sound a bit ancient and conservative but for this particular use case, the good old Radio technology (MW/SW, AM/FM, etc) is a better candidate than the regular Internet. It's a tad more difficult to hack or DDOS compared to Internet as there is no single point of failure. If you broadcast on a SW frequency, for example, they will have to block/jam it in every single country where those waves traverse.
I have a more complete theory than involves the decline of model trains and stamp collecting, but the malignancy of conspiracy theories these days is also linked to not being confined to shortwave conspiracy theory shows and mimeograph newsletters the way it was in the 1970s.
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#19Who does Twitter/X use for DDoS mitigation? Akamai? Cloudflare? Anyone know?
"the best part is no part at all"
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#20[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230965