Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

Post by newaccoutnas » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

cronix wrote: post #71

popz41 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.

That's why it's called PRISM. It's exactly what you describe. Splitting an optical signal into 2 using, basically, a prism. One signal goes out to the net as normal, the other goes to their own datacenters, that they keep continually building and expanding. The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security. Check em out. Look at the size and cost of them. Some are over a million sq. ft. That's a lo…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #81

wybiral wrote: post #16

Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a smal…

> Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? Google sure, but what people in the real world cares about twitter? Twitter could be down for days and only the technocracy would notice.

Post by betolink » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #10

jedberg wrote: post #9

So yesterday Google had a major (and out of character) outage across its apps, and today Facebook has a major (and also out of character) outage across its apps. I can't wait to see the RCA for both of these and if they're related.

Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.

Post by jmrobertson » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:52 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #49

godzillabrennus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.

Alternate Post Mortem: Cyber WWIII's first public skirmishes become visible... (Ignore Stuxnet, Ignore DUQU)

Post by cronix » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:54 PM UTC