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Re: Facebook was down

#161

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

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Re: Facebook was down

#163
If they guy is posting pics of himself on Twitter asking others to "dox him", it could mean that he's pretty emotionally stable not to fall for the common pitfalls when it comes to online hacking.

In that sense, it's very possible that he has access to some major database dumps that the public is unaware of, and given that he is also claiming the glory behind the Malaysia Airlines hack; it's clear that he does more than DDoS, no matter what the more educated hackers are saying.

A long way to go for a secure internet, that's for sure.

Re: Facebook was down

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't seen Facebook go down in years. I wonder if this is going to be a big deal .

I'm wondering how much revenue gets lost every minute that Facebook is down. It has to be in the tens of thousands. Edit: someone wrote this below in the comments, which came to $400 per second of downtime. Ouch.

$400 per second somehow seems... smaller than I would have thought. Their opex on a per second basis has got to be orders of magnitude higher than that.

Re: Facebook was down

#168

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

Obviously Tinder falls with Facebook, but HipChat's definitely still working for me...

They report issues:

http://status.hipchat.com/

Re: Facebook was down

#169

This doesnt look right: whois facebook.com @8.8.8.8 Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM FACEBOO…

Appears to return hosts with name starting with search term, which doesn't make a lot of sense but has likely always been the case. Also @ flag is a dig thing, not whois.

Re: Facebook was down

#170

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

Would be fascinated to see them take on big G. E: not that I support these guys in any way. Just curious what would happen -- and whether we might all learn something about DDoS mitigation from such an event.

Google gets DDoSed all the time. You don't hear about it because, well, the DDoS SREs are very, very good at what they do.
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