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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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1 posted on 10/21/2016 9:41:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Putin did it.


2 posted on 10/21/2016 9:42:28 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Beowulf9

Look at who was hacked would be my guess...ROFL...


3 posted on 10/21/2016 9:44:07 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Beowulf9
This is going to prove to be their biggest error.
4 posted on 10/21/2016 9:44:13 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Beowulf9

Obama gave away control of the internet to the UN so that he could crash it, suspend the election, blame the Russians, and assume the role of dictator.


5 posted on 10/21/2016 9:44:50 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Beowulf9

Gunbroker isn’t working either.


6 posted on 10/21/2016 9:45:27 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Beowulf9

The next internet (block chain) won’t have these vulnerabilities.


7 posted on 10/21/2016 9:45:35 AM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Beowulf9

It was Julian supporters to show Julian and the world he is not alone.


8 posted on 10/21/2016 9:46:09 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Beowulf9

CNBC just announced they are down again!


9 posted on 10/21/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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Massive DDoS happening even now.


10 posted on 10/21/2016 9:47:43 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Beowulf9

4Chan is still up.


11 posted on 10/21/2016 9:48:40 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: relictele

Twitter is still down.


12 posted on 10/21/2016 9:49:36 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Worse than I thought. The report I heard only mentioned 4 of those websites listed above


13 posted on 10/21/2016 9:49:42 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Beowulf9

Because a bunch of inefficient foreigners are running the internet now.


14 posted on 10/21/2016 9:49:57 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: Beowulf9

I can’t even reach Harry’s shave. Who would do a DOS on a razor company?


15 posted on 10/21/2016 9:51:01 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65

Occum?


16 posted on 10/21/2016 9:51:52 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

“Obama gave away control of the internet to the UN so that he could crash it, suspend the election, blame the Russians, and assume the role of dictator.”

One little oversight, there. He didn’t take the guns.

Wanna-be dictator will only be a wanna-be.


17 posted on 10/21/2016 9:52:09 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: xkaydet65

Incorrect spelling. Sorry, lol.

Occam?


18 posted on 10/21/2016 9:52:37 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Gadsden1st

i think they had to announce it given no one was watching.


19 posted on 10/21/2016 9:53:05 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Who would do a DOS on a razor company?

Could be the Amish... don't they prefer beards over being clean shaven?

20 posted on 10/21/2016 9:53:28 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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