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Re: massive facebook outage presently


From: Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:30:09 -0700

On 10/4/21 12:11, bzs () 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

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Jay Hennigan - jay () west net
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