massive facebook outage presently
Matt Hoppes
mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net
Mon Oct 4 20:56:22 UTC 2021
Yes,
We've seen that.
On 10/4/21 4:33 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> I am starting to see reports that in ISPs with very large numbers of
> residential users, customers are starting to press the factory-reset
> buttons on their home routers/modems/whatever, in an attempt to make
> Facebook work. This is resulting in much heavier than normal first tier
> support volumes. The longer it stays down the worse this is going to get.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net
> <mailto:jay at west.net>> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/21 12:11, bzs at theworld.com <mailto:bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Although I believe it's generally true that if a company appears
> > prominently in the news it's liable to be attacked I assume because
> > the miscreants sit around thinking "hmm, who shall we attack today oh
> > look at that shiny headline!" I'd hate to ascribe any altruistic
> > motivation w/o some evidence like even a credible twitter post (maybe
> > they posted that on FB? :-)
>
> I personally believe that the outage was caused by human error and not
> something malicious. Time will tell.
>
> However, if you missed the 60 Minutes piece, it was a former employee
> who spoke out with some rather powerful observations. I don't think
> that
> this type of worldwide outage was caused by an outside bad actor. It is
> certainly within the realm of possibility that it was an inside job.
>
> In other news:
>
> https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736?s=20
>
> --
> Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net <mailto:jay at west.net>
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>
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