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#192Looks like a classic Stack Snowverflow error to me.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
SREs?
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#194Annd it's back up again
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#195Down here (Central America)
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#196Obviously 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
Yeah, lets see "Blizzard Squad" try this when all of the east coast isn't trapped inside.
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#197I've always thought how strange it is when people notice and make such a big deal about facebook being down or accessible. It's almost as if fb has become a public utility or something. As others have remarked, one way one can interpret this is it is a testament to their ops' exceptional ability as engineers that such downtime is so noticeable.
>It's almost as if fb has become a public utility or something.
Well thats what Zuckerberg answered a user to the question "Why Facebook wasn't cool anymore". He didn't want it to be cool , but more like a digital utility like water or electricity
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#198I mean, like, WOW. If they have done this we all must give them props for ambition.
Forget Sony. Nobody outside of hollywood bigwigs were impacted by that. But Facebook? The US government is going to go nuts. I hope lizardsquad are driving drone-proof cars.
Facebook is now back online for me on my home connection (BC Canada) and every Tor node I try. Either the attack is over or FB has fought back.
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#199It's Up and Running. All the websites are accessible now.
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#200Obviously 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
I gotta say I'm finding it hard to accept their word that they're responsible for Facebook. I haven't paid much attention but I'm under the impression that they primarily just deal in DDoS's and other crude attacks, and I have a hard time imagining that they could cause a large enough DDoS to affect the massive juggernaut that is Facebook. Especially since Facebook just came back up and is now perfectly responsive an…
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a DoS since facebook was reachable and serving error pages, and instagram was reachable and serving blank pages. It _does_ seem like an intrusion or other security incident though because I'd be surprised to learn that instagram shares lots of critical infrastructure with facebook. It seems more likely that someone hit the panic button for both sites.