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When the Entire Internet Seems to Break At Once
http://www.theatlantic.com ^ | Oct 21 2016 | Robinson Meyer and Adrienne Lafrance

Posted on 10/21/2016 9:41:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9

For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a halt—or at least slow to dial-up speed—for many users in the United States.

More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.

How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: ddos; globalists; gremlins; hackers; icann; intarwebs; internet; netneutrality; obama; un; untiednations; websiteoutages
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To: Covenantor

Humm.. not sure why your raw IP to YouTube aren’t working (unless perhaps they don’t allow it).

I checked the Internet Storm Center and everything looks green other than hit on DynDns. No other unusual activity reported.


101 posted on 10/21/2016 10:57:38 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s definitely Anonymous.

As a side note, Twitter is not-so-slowly going down here in Kentucky. I now have a 9 minute lag on receiving tweets.


102 posted on 10/21/2016 10:58:10 AM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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To: Beowulf9

WikiLeaks is up. 25000 emails so far.


103 posted on 10/21/2016 10:58:39 AM PDT by petercooper (Is there anything Hillary Clinton is involved with which isn't illegal?)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Gunbroker is back up for me


104 posted on 10/21/2016 10:58:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Beowulf9

Verizon DSL in Delaware OK now at 2 pm EDT


105 posted on 10/21/2016 10:59:55 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Roccus

Roccus, my good friend—glad to “see” you. I’m not around as much as usual because the political system in the U.S. is so depressing I can’t stand to pay much attention. I have to concentrate on my ancestry work and local activities to keep my spirits up. How are you doing?


106 posted on 10/21/2016 11:00:28 AM PDT by American Quilter (Hillary is an Unindicted Criminal.)
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To: imardmd1

Just read this on Twitter:

“West Coast has no access to twitter. What is going on? Is this a fore-warning of things to come? Trial run?”


107 posted on 10/21/2016 11:01:44 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: American Quilter; Gideon7; John Robinson

Thanks, but credit goes to John. He’s done a great job setting up our systems.


108 posted on 10/21/2016 11:02:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Beowulf9
https://mobile.twitter.com/BigEdLB1/status/788602464408829956/photo/1
They didn't want my pic of a local Trump display to be seen so all Twitter is up and down... ;)
109 posted on 10/21/2016 11:02:59 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: LouieFisk

Bkmrk.


110 posted on 10/21/2016 11:08:07 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: TruBluKentuckian

This does smell like the work Anonymous. I think it is the kind of dramatic stunt they would pull, being quasi-anarchists and all.

Notice who is not being DDOSed? WikiLeaks.

That kind of surprised me. I would have thought that Hillary/Obama would have ordered the US Cyber Command or some other covert asset to shout them down by now.

I suspect they literally don’t have that capability. It requires hijacking a ton of PCs and I bet the US govt lawyers said no.


111 posted on 10/21/2016 11:11:35 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

not so with youtube

http://downdetector.com/status/youtube/map/


112 posted on 10/21/2016 11:13:03 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: TruBluKentuckian

I guess its back to 1994. Thats when I got my first dial up modem.


113 posted on 10/21/2016 11:14:33 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: Gideon7

ok... now it’s back


114 posted on 10/21/2016 11:14:34 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: American Quilter

Other than joints breaking down (must be that magic 70+ thingy) things have been good. Finally sprang for a really good bass boat and my fishing buddy had to go and break his hip and get it replaced so I’m waiting for him to mend so we can get to the lake more often.

Life is what happpens while we’re busy making plans.


115 posted on 10/21/2016 11:16:16 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Gideon7

Wikileaks is an agile collection of servers in many locations. Hard to take them down, but the US is trying. In the meantime the US is trying to gum up the works. Most disruptive traffic today is coming from Microsoft offices.


116 posted on 10/21/2016 11:16:25 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson

Bravo, John!


117 posted on 10/21/2016 11:17:05 AM PDT by American Quilter (Hillary is an Unindicted Criminal.)
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To: Beowulf9

Easy to take down internet or make it hard to get to sites if you mess with the dns servers and companies running them. It is on drudge, also here is a link for more info: https://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/ddos-attack-against-dns-provider-knocks-major-sites-offline-16977.html


118 posted on 10/21/2016 11:17:33 AM PDT by ironmano
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To: Beowulf9

The trial runs are over.


119 posted on 10/21/2016 11:18:30 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: Cementjungle

Yeah, I saw that on the Norse attack map. Even THEY have been down.


120 posted on 10/21/2016 11:18:50 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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