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 ...
I’ll worry when FreeRepblic and Drudge are down...
Isn't that the truth? It's why people in their 60s and up retire. We don't have time to go to work; we have to spend our time at the doctor's office. Really glad to hear about your fine new boat (don't let your guns fall out of it), and hope your buddy is back in fishing status soon.
As long as I can look at the occasional cat video and/or cat picture I will be OK.
Update: Twitter now completely down for me. Darn.
As little as six weeks ago that would have sounded a touch crazy to me.
Now it sounds like the most likely explanation.
ancestry. com still down for me...(struggling to breathe).
ancestry.com is up here but very slow.
Latest update from dynstatus: “At this time, the advanced service monitoring issue has been resolved. Our engineers are still investigating and mitigating the attacks on our infrastructure. Oct 21, 18:52 UTC”
Glad to hear you can reach their server; still no success here.
Frontier (Internet Radio Service) is down. Went out exactly at 3pm east coast time.
More going down too.
This is either a "false flag" to justify the attack on Russia - and then after a couple of days of escalation, things will to go a shooting war;
OR
This was supposed to be the attack on Russia, but the same Dem geniuses who couldn't build the Obamacare website, attacked United States by mistake--with the added advantage that it shut up people about Wikileaks for a few hours.
AI Borg beast in machine code. Even shutting down every machine on the planet can’t stop it. Turning things back on and it’ll still be there. Not today but maybe, or maybe soon once it learns more from this attack sequence and rewrites itself.
Don’t know how many times I have to post this... it was Anonymous. I saw them talking about it early this morning on twitter before it started. It’s their message to whoever that if Assange goes down so does the internet. It was a show of support for Assange/Wikileaks.
If they want to take down the Internet they need to take down Level 3, OpenDNS, VeriSign and Google DNS servers. Then all h*** will break loose.
The East Coast was under siege on Friday morning from a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that brought down more than a dozen prominent websites, including Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub, Amazon and Reddit.
The attack against Dyn DNS shuttered a number of widely used sites. Most have returned to normal as of noon EST, although Amazon said it was weakened by a “hostname” issue. It wasn’t clear whether that glitch was related to the DDoS attack that hit Dyn, a Manchester, N.H.-based internet performance management company that also offers domain registration services and email products.
Ironically I’ve been posting all day from the red zone. Even bought something online.
Level 3 is getting hit pretty hard right now.
Well, the internet and social media is how Trump has galvanized the movement against her. The media and internet has been the avenue for spreading the info about her widespread corruption. The Democrat party has been on a jihad about cyber threats to the election (justifying seizing the internet as “critical infrastructure).
So except to a moron, its pretty obvious what is been happening today.
*Sigh* It was Anonymous... plain and simple. They bragged about it before it started.
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