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Near zero impact on my life. Talked with one of my kids about it for a few minutes and about how we almost did the same thing to ourselves a couple of years back. So last night, I worked an hour or so on a pond I'm rehabbing, watched some tv with the wife, and fell asleep rather early so I could wake up early and work out.
I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ parent communication goes through there. Some of my social groups are organised through fb.
Not for nothing but in many places — including Israel and Palestine — WhatsApp is used as the de facto phone and text messaging platform. Ostensibly, a utility is down right now for millions of people. The billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook. - Abraham Gutman https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573
How is it facebook’s fault that regular SMS is so bad in these countries that their platform is preferable?
What’s stopping the government from launching their own platform if they want a utility?
And why is it that if you make a product that ends up really popular then suddenly you’re a utility?
I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
I was concerned it might have been the quiet start of WWIII, a cyberattack aimed at a chunk of US infrastructure... I was worried Google and the rest would quickly follow in going offline. I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
I was concerned it might have been the quiet start of WWIII, a cyberattack aimed at a chunk of US infrastructure... I was worried Google and the rest would quickly follow in going offline. I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
The internet is literally designed to survive WWIII. Your concerns about the US infrastructure is not incorrect but a management issue, not a technical one. In case of large scale BGP attacks much will go down but big ISP's like google will simply drop all non rpki routes and naughty neighbours & continue life per usual. Perhaps such a attack should happen as this would force everyone to have their shit in order resu…
December 7, 1941 was a peaceful Sunday, until it wasn't.
February 26, 1993 was just another Friday, until it wasn't.
September 11, 2001 was just another Tuesday, until it wasn't.
I was only a bit worried, but these type of events have a non-zero probability.
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The internet is literally designed to survive WWIII. Your concerns about the US infrastructure is not incorrect but a management issue, not a technical one. In case of large scale BGP attacks much will go down but big ISP's like google will simply drop all non rpki routes and naughty neighbours & continue life per usual. Perhaps such a attack should happen as this would force everyone to have their shit in order resu…
The internet is NOT designed to survive a war, that's a urban myth. The first thing that would happen in such an event would be the deployment of the stash of Zero day exploits that every major power has saved up for the occasion. December 7, 1941 was a peaceful Sunday, until it wasn't. February 26, 1993 was just another Friday, until it wasn't. September 11, 2001 was just another Tuesday, until it wasn't. I was only…