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[QUOTE=HoneyBadger;2345152]You're suggesting that somebody posted something anti-Military Industrial Complex on Facebook, so "they" (Facebook or the government) shut down the entire site and their other products like Whatsapp and Instagram to... do what?[/QUOTE]
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Delete and block. Just like they do on this very forum. Facebook reported they had to fly engineers into California to manually reset the corporate servers. Might not even be a "somebody" could be a something i.e. an AI. Link below is a fictional novel of an AI that takes over a computer network. Circa 1977...Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1
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It is probably just corporate warfare. Twitter was up and running just fine. A war where money is the weapon. I just thought it strange that the VP was on one coast and POTUS on the other. Ed Snowden probably knows exactly what happened. I knew some event was going to happen today.
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I had no idea until I saw the talk about it on the forums. Pretty sure if all the Zberg platforms turned into smoking holes in the ground, I still wouldn't notice.
Did some truth get out since the "fact checkers" were offline today?
They apparently had Border Gateway Protocol "issues".
Last edited by Gman; 10-05-2021 at 00:44.
Liberals never met a slippery slope they didn't grease.
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I wish technology solved people issues. It seems to just reveal them.
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Not a bad description.
The best way to describe a high level DNS attack is by going back to the 90's. You want to call a store on the other side of town, but the government has gathered and burned all the phone books. The the phone system still works, the stores # still works, but you'll never be able to call anybody unless you have their phone number memorized. Knowing their name won't help at all.
In an alternate attack, someone has reprinted all the phone books and everybody's real phone number has been removed, and replaced with a fake one. You look up a number in the phone book and call anyone, it goes to either a sex hotline that automatically bills your account, or a Nigerian scammer, every time, even when your kids try to call mawmaw if they don't have her number memorized.
The internet also runs entirely on an equivalent of phone numbers. (IP address). They all look similar to this: 208.157.101.211. Many have seen it before as 192.168.1.1 <--- the most common address of your router/gateway.
DNS is simply the phone book. It is sort of a pyramid hierarchy that shares information from higher-level servers, so there are certain servers, that if successfully attacked, could cascade changes down into a large number of other servers.
Nobody memorizes IP addresses for their favorite websites, most websites break if you try to browse directly by IP anyway (bad programming).
DNS is also one of many ways that a government can, theoretically, control the internet, which may be it's biggest weakness of all.
It sounds like Facebook may have accidentally sent a routing protocol update that essentially said "we don't have servers anymore". This would stop internet traffic from routing to their servers, it functionally acts as if everything has been disconnected.
Ah shit, whoops, we have to fix that fast! Mistakes like this have happened to tons of IT professionals.
Any easy fix for most businesses, but because Facebook so heavily runs everything through Facebook, that also removed their ability to send a quick update that would said "oops, yes we do have servers, ignore that". No, that simple little f-up took everything they had offline, and also took their keycard servers offline so they couldn't get physical access to access what they needed to go fix it either.
It would've been mostly a non-issue for most other businesses, and mistakes like that occasionally happen, but because Facebook so heavily runs everything through it's own cloud/systems/etc. it literally took them many hours to get far enough to do a 60 second fix.
What? There is/was a fakebook outage? Who knew?
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/governmen...151000879.html
Unrelated, just didn't want to start a new thread. The secret courts have been using keyword warrants to have google (and other providers) provide anyone that searched for specific keywords, either currently or for past periods of time.
These trigger keywords are presumed to be certain people, addresses, or phone numbers.
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