Facebook outage

[Squeeze]

Yeah, Facebook definitely took a massive dump today. I went to check my business page and it was a "no-go". I'm not even sure it's 100% up and running as of yet. After that whistle blower went on 60 minutes, I'm sure they are cleaning slates.

[hollohas]

I asked all my friends on that platform and they said everything has been working fine and have no idea what I'm talking about.

It's back up now unfortunately.

But it was down since before 10am. Which wouldn't have been obvious to anyone who just uses their app. The app still displayed old posts, which anyone who uses it is used to because the algorithms frequently keep old posts at the top. Open app, see same old posts you're used to seeing, nothing out of the ordinary there, close app. In reality, it wasn't algorithms keeping old posts on top, it truly wasn't updating.

However, anyone trying to access the website would have immediately noticed it was down because the site didn't exist.

Not gonna lie, kinda bummed it's back up...

[BushMasterBoy]

Puts on FB would probably reap handsome profits. Report says $16 drop in price today. To quote Jack Ryan..."I just follow the money"


https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/face...hats-next.html

[Irving]

I couldn't possibly care any less than I do. If neither of the three ever went online again the world would be a better place.

So you definitely care, as you should. I wonder what the world would look like after a full year of no social media.

[BladesNBarrels]

Looks like FB is down about 5% today and 16% from previous high.
Still up for the previous 52 weeks about 28%
It might be a buying opportunity or a harbinger of rough times ahead.

[Irving]

Does Facebook have Century Link?

[Great-Kazoo]

Well for some people FB is still down.


The good news is, like me, porn hub is still up.

[Great-Kazoo]

I asked all my friends on that platform and they said everything has been working fine and have no idea what I'm talking about.

Sorry, something went wrong.
We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

[TEAMRICO]

That?s terrible?

[def90]

Sounds like a possible stock opportunity in the near future TBH. Not that I don't hate facebook.

Very curious on the DNS wiping.

DNS is the real weakness of the entire internet. If a widespread BIND vulnerability ever was identified, the entire internet would pretty much blink out for awhile insofar as name-based browsing is concerned. Or many other possibilities. It's nowhere near as redundant as people would like to believe.

That would have to be a hell of a hack though to get to the keycards. If true, that is suspicious. I have a hard time believing a company like Facebook would leave their access/control server internet connected. That... almost sounds like an insider / deep network pen. Or a long undetected nation state pen to get that far...

Unless they are morons on logical/physical security, which is not entirely impossible, but seems unlikely.

I install access controls systems, a lot of them are moving to cloud based management and smart device app integration in addition to or in lieu of using actual keyfobs or card key tokens. The app integration would require an operational web connection between the access control server and the outside world/internet to work. Depending on whether or not Facebook is hosting their own access control server and if they are operating it off the same system that the platform itself is running on then I could see that outage happening.