YouTube is down • Hacker News Board

seanp2k2 wrote: post #4

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

I'm going with everybody else, it's an encrypted stack trace. Every reload is entirely different rather than small portions changing, so we can assume it's something like AES rather than a simple XOR. If it were a simpler encoding we would see largely similar areas with just small sections changed for server IDs and timestamps. The distribution of the data is for all intents random, and it's too big to be an identifier on it's own, so that's the only logical explanation I can come up with.

Re: YouTube is down

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Post by dag11 » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

It's back.

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#16

Post by chrislomax » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

It's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.

Re: YouTube is down

#17

Post by sotoer » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

It's down due to too few G+ comments. Youtube needs a minimum amount of a-hole comments in order to survive.

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Post by chrislomax » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

chrislomax wrote: post #16

It's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.

And now it's back on for me

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Post by benmmurphy » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #4

+1; getting their 500 page with some info that looks like it's base64 encoded, but it doesn't decode to anything useful running it through `echo -n '[...]' |base64 -d` . Any ideas what format that is?

the decoded data has a frequency distribution similar to random output so probably encrypted :) maybe that did something lolzy like stream cipher with the same key.

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Post by ravinder » Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 10:48 PM UTC

Their apis look to be down too http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618