Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

Post by Jiocus » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

deepstack wrote: post #248

Jiocus wrote: post #149

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Telegram is not affiliated with VK, neither is Telegram based in Russia 🇷🇺

Hmmm? Telegram founder is a sharholder in VK from what heard from people from Russia and Ukraine.

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was also _the original creator_ of VK. Some say “he's the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia”, an unfair comparison if you'd ask me. While both Pavel and Mark have built successful social platforms, that's where the similarities ends.

Because he refused to comply with government demands to identify activists using VK, Durov was personally ousted from the company (and self-exiled from Russia altogether).

While refreshing my Durov trivia, I found he published a text a couple days ago, and this following passage just had a good vibe; “I focused on what I enjoyed most – creating social platforms that (hopefully) bring good to humanity. I spent most of my personal funds on Telegram for people to enjoy a free service that strives for perfection.”[1]

[1]: https://telegra.ph/Consume-Less-Create-More-Its-More-Fun-12-...

Post by ficklepickle » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #82

oblio wrote: post #81

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It's been a while since I studied routing, but have they fixed BGP security? I remember reading about the protocol and thinking something like: this seems awfully "hippie-trust" levels of security. Granted, this was 10 years ago so my recollection of BGP is super fuzzy :-D

nope. proper and full implementation of BCP38, MANRS, full RPKI validation of all IP ranges and such is a long distance away. within trusted groups of ISPs where the admins all know each other, in certain specific geographic regions, it's better than others.. I would say that the number of ISPs I could call "fully compliant" with current best practices, in the Portland-Seattle-Vancouver area, is higher than in many o…

How is shaw?

Anecdote: I was surprised to find they honour TTLs on their DNS service. Everyone else I have access to seems to return the new IP almost immediately, but shaw waits it out.

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