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Inside chaos at Facebook as servers crash and staff left paralysed on 'snow day'
The Mirror UK ^ | 05 October 2021 | ByMatthew Dresch

Posted on 10/05/2021 8:27:46 PM PDT by blueplum

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To: Army Air Corps

Told ya.


21 posted on 10/05/2021 10:37:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: blueplum
Calm down.

Facebook is simply a meeting place where family and friends can share photos and vacation experiences.

People with nothing to eat, no place to sleep, no bathroom etc. ALL HAVE FACEBOOK pages and cell phones.

I said it at it's beginning and it's even truer today. Social media's only purpose is destruction.

Social media is scourge of the earth.

GOOGLE is no better yet everyone uses that too.

22 posted on 10/05/2021 10:41:27 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Thank you Fox news for saving us from Trump < /sarcasm >)
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To: frogjerk

I heard an internet guru explain that it was in fact a systemwide BGP update foul up. And because Facebook keeps everything inhouse, including even their security system, all the keycards stopped working as well. Rumor was they were using angle grinders to gain access to their master servers.


23 posted on 10/05/2021 10:42:46 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: \/\/ayne; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

“I’m not buying any of this crap!”

And with good reason. For starters, the whistleblower is not one; she is in cahoots with FB, a total lefty with a track record of working for radical Dems, and she and FB have orchestrated this alleged whistleblower hearing in order to set up more censorship being allowed by FB (for the children’s safety, you know) so that they can actually censor and get rid of more conservatives from FB.

Don’t be fooled here folks. This is all a set-up to give FB cover to be able to get rid of conservative speech off of its platform. You’ll be hearing more about this today as the Pubs at the hearing are figuring out what is really going on here. Two of the Pubs that attended the hearing are onto this latest ploy by FB big-time. Laura Ingraham had them on last night. Stay tuned.


24 posted on 10/06/2021 12:27:32 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior AIvisor))
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To: Blurb2350
Rumor was they were using angle grinders to gain access to their master servers.

Low tech bails out high tech all of the time.

25 posted on 10/06/2021 5:41:11 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: blueplum

I’d bet a steak dinner that the dark web has a better backup of Facebook data than Facebook. So if Facebook goes down, call the dark web denizens to get up and running again.


26 posted on 10/06/2021 7:52:49 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: blueplum

It’s too bad the outage wasn’t permanent.


27 posted on 10/06/2021 8:35:05 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("Without gunpowder there is no freedom." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: blueplum

My thoughts: The crash was intentional to give them time to destroy/remove damaging evidence that might be subpoenaed by Congress or Courts.


28 posted on 10/06/2021 8:39:36 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("Without gunpowder there is no freedom." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tophat9000

I worked at a university that used BGP internally (iBGP) as well as externally (eBGP). We used it to do virtual segmentation on our LAN - we had different VRF’s (virtual routing & forwarding) subsystems for different ‘groups’ of items. We had “students” in one group, and that way they had the same firewall policies across the entire campus - regardless of if they were on wired, wireless or even connected via VPN. Same for staff, faculty, and then other systems (like phones, infrastructure - wireless APs, door controllers, etc.). Each one had specific firewall policies and access rules to either talk inside, or outside. Infrastructure devices NEVER talked outside - period.


29 posted on 10/06/2021 10:26:01 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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