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[JLB]

An important lesson has been learnt, never to rely on one company for your communications needs, without any backup channels in place. There are many alternatives available to WhatsApp: Signal/Telegram/Skype

I guess a developing country has bigger needs than providing several integrations with all the available actors.
Also, its not that easy to make 75+ year persons to swtich between services. Let alone people that didnt finished elemntary school and probably dont even know of Signal or Telegram.

 

[BlackM1st]

Today was a good day.

Wonder how much money zucc lost.

Hope they never recover.

6 billion. Now just 6th place among richest people.

 

[JLB]

This makes no sense at all.

 

[SJRB]

 

[rofif]

Lol that is a reason why I refused to accept "IT security auditor" position at my company.
It is a SINGLE PERSON position responsible for whole thousand people company IT security.
I feel I know this stuff but not nearly enough... and even if I would, You still get fired for this type of stuff which is not your fault.

So I am still an engineer.....

 

[Star-Lord]

Wait, so it’s gone gone!?

 

[rofif]

I know that's theoretical money but wtf

 

[Rat Rage]

 

[Fuz]

We'll never find out what that one person's lunch looked like this afternoon.

Damn, such a funny and poignant joke I have no place where to share it.

 

[TransTrender]

Wait, so it’s gone gone!?

Nah, at this point it means it's gone 'cuz da internets doesn't know how to route traffic to their sites.

 

[Kittehkraken]

 

[zeorhymer]

60 Minutes whistleblower interview. Congress testimony. No one can enter the building. Scrubbing servers? False. You can't use soap to scrub servers.

 

[MDSLKTR]

If this continues Bane gonna walk up in a stadium tonight

 

[WoJ]

Can someone do twitter next?

 

[Fuz]

 

[SidViscous]

Nintendo eShop went offline, Facebook to buy Nintendo confirmed. Amazon "smiley face" Box to be revealed as the final smash character tonight.

 

[Belthazar]

Can someone do twitter next?

They might as well... I just managed to get a hit tweet earlier today and when it got to 80k likes this whole thing happened and people stopped caring

 

[MadAnon]

Microsoft bought Facebook. Announcment on Wednesday.

 

[SidViscous]

I fired up Virtual Desktop just fine

I was playing VR chat and now I'm stuck in the game, we killed a Furry in the game and they died in real life too. We're currently forming a group to stay safe in the Pug Inn, but someone thinks they spotted a small red thing outside with a knife asking for the way in.. just need to hold out for the Facebook servers to come back on.

 

[ColonialRaptor]

If it is just the routing servers then the data and their backups are fine but all we know from the outside so far is that the routing servers are gone and the Facebook buildings digital cards aren’t working. That says to me that something in the inside is worse than just the routing servers. If it’s just the routing servers they would have fixed it already. They have many redundant backups of the data though so I doubt we’ll see any personal loss. That hacking sale thing makes me believe it’s just stirring the pot the amount of data for 1.5 billion people is no small thing.

 

[Rat Rage]

If it is just the routing servers then the data and their backups are fine but all we know from the outside so far is that the routing servers are gone and the Facebook buildings digital cards aren’t working. That says to me that something in the inside is worse than just the routing servers. If it’s just the routing servers they would have fixed it already. They have many redundant backups of the data though so I doubt we’ll see any personal loss. That hacking sale thing makes me believe it’s just stirring the pot the amount of data for 1.5 billion people is no small thing.

Dude, this is getting good, lol!

 

[Razvedka]

You may have noticed Facebook is down (and with it oculus, whatsapp, and insta). Apparently it's a cyber attack and some are speculating the attack is a response to a whistleblower who was interviewed on 60 minutes last night basically saying FB is full of shit.

Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

www.cbsnews.com

Important to note that the DDOS attack is a rumored cause- I think an attack against FB would need to be absolutely massive to bring it down like this.

I don't think its a DDOS based on what I'm reading.

Also:

 

[Gp1]

An important lesson has been learnt, never to rely on one company for your communications needs, without any backup channels in place. There are many alternatives available to WhatsApp: Signal/Telegram/Skype

Everyone here (Brazil at least) has a backup on Telegram etc. It already happened before here and that's not the problem.

I believe that something like this is good just as eye opener for some, specially the newer generations, that the "cloud" is in fact on someone else hardware and that you are not the owner of your social network.

 

[rofif]

If it is just the routing servers then the data and their backups are fine but all we know from the outside so far is that the routing servers are gone and the Facebook buildings digital cards aren’t working. That says to me that something in the inside is worse than just the routing servers. If it’s just the routing servers they would have fixed it already. They have many redundant backups of the data though so I doubt we’ll see any personal loss. That hacking sale thing makes me believe it’s just stirring the pot the amount of data for 1.5 billion people is no small thing.

DNS servers are not stored on location are they?
Even if, restoring list of DNS IPs redirects is a text file

 

[JLB]

Today was a good day.

Wonder how much money zucc lost.

Hope they never recover.

Dont want to play the low punch card, but friend of mine has a kid with case 1 diabethes and the provider operates through whatsapp.

 

[Putonahappyface]

“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn​

 

[Dusktildawn48]

 

[INC]

Nah bro she just ghosted you.

Ha as if women want fuck all to do with a newly separated hobbit, with trust issues

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Damn, such a funny and poignant joke I have no place where to share it.

Farmersonly.com

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Lol that is a reason why I refused to accept "IT security auditor" position at my company.
It is a SINGLE PERSON position responsible for whole thousand people company IT security.
I feel I know this stuff but not nearly enough... and even if I would, You still get fired for this type of stuff which is not your fault.

So I am still an engineer.....

Nothing wrong with being an engineer my man. I am happy being a security engineer for the rest of my days, way worse jobs you could do. I agree we need to stop this victim blaming and having singular people from organisations take responsibility for breaches. If a big or bad enough APT group wants to take you down….they will. We are always fighting a losing battle.

 

[GeekyDad]

It's easy to understand the sentiment of wanting to see Facebook fail. I think it's more difficult to appreciate how, at this point, that affects so many real people.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Damn. This is getting good. The Zucc is fucc’d.

 

[Sybrix]

Do we know the cause?

Hackers or technical fault?

 

[Star-Lord]

Nah, at this point it means it's gone 'cuz da internets doesn't know how to route traffic to their sites.

I sincerely hope it goes from gone to gone gone overnight, followed by Twitter, TikTok, etc. Reset the world to before social media came along.

 

[Sub_Level]

Telegram chads. A toast. A toast I say.

 

[GHG]

Bring WhatsApp back and the rest can all burn in hell for all I care.

Facebook and insta disappearing would be to the betterment of society.

 

[ManaByte]

When you realize you can't watch 8K 60fps VR porn on your Oculus because FB is gone.

 

[VN1X]

Well, there it is.

wow these corporations are so cool and hip! I feel represented by them and I want to purchase their products now.

 

[GHG]

When you realize you can't watch 8K 60fps VR porn on your Oculus because FB is gone.

They are saving us from having to suffer the censored version of RE4.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

When you realize you can't watch 8K 60fps VR porn on your Oculus because FB is gone.

2D is on the menu tonight boys

 

[BlackM1st]

Telegram chads. A toast. A toast I say.

 

[TTOOLL]

Telegram just got back up. Thankfully I don't use Instagram or Facebook, Whatsapp is for work only, so it was a good day.

 

[TheMan]

off topic but I can not get over this haircut.

 

[Fbh]

On the one hand getting no messages from customers for a day has been kinda relaxing.
On the other hand as a small business this sucks because Instagram and Whatsapp are basically the main ways to talk to your customers.

 

[GHG]

2D is on the menu tonight boys

More content available. You can't have 20 tabs open and active at once in VR.

 

[hemo memo]

Not shitting on your parade friend but why would you rely on a third party app for your emergency services with no contingencies?

The problem is WhatsApp here in the country is pretty much the default communication app for business and personal. A couple years back people used to ask if you have WhatsApp or not. Now they just assume you have because most likely you do.

 

[TheMan]

Wait, so it’s gone gone!?

I don't think "gone" means that all your personal data is deleted. I think he means that there's no easy way to access said data. Apparently someone has to physically access the relevant hardware and reprogram (or restore) whatever was lost.

 

[SidViscous]

It's almost back now, can see them sorting the routing tables out in real-time for all the CDNs they use. Someone is having a rough day/evening.

 

[Rubik8]

And nothing of value was lost.