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[Timeaisis]

Yep, this might be coming from friggin internet of shit kettles

It would be kind of ironic if that ended up being our downfall. A bunch of internet kettles.

 

[Bebpo]

at least no one was killed

Depends. Say the entire internet is taken down one day for 6 hours. If there's anything dependent on it, bad things could happen. Although I hope people don't make anything critical dependent on being online.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Whoever said "War never changes" was full of shit man.

Snake was right

 

[nadozza]

Was up and down earlier for me. Mobile app still can't pull information though.

Same, super all over the place

 

[jstripes]

Do you guys feel secure in this digital world?

 

[rokkerkory]

I bet Russia is behind this somehow

 

[Head of Vengarl]

So do we (the USA) ever do this shit to other countries? Or do they (Russia, China, NK) just fuck with our internet with impunity?

 

[wamberz1]

Twitter works fine for me in Toronto.

Was up and down earlier for me. Mobile app still can't pull information though.

In Leslieville right now and twitter and netflix are both completely screwed up.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Time to stock up on canned dank memes.

 

[Charcoal]

Years from now, what will you say when they ask where you were during the great Internet outage of 2016?

 

[sazzy]

this is just happening with a single dns company right?

 

[Forerunner]

Gaf good, Twitch good, and I can play civ vi. You lose hackers.

 

[trebbble]

watch Bush start a fucking war

I just wanted you to know that I got this reference

 

[SomTervo]

It's a pretty open secret that state run botnets are getting the capabilities to take out enough of the Internet to render it mostly useless. We are just seeing the beginning of this.

Yeah. I'm almost surprised people are so surprised.

Do we know who is doing it yet?

 

[hampig]

Technology is awesome. I'm glad I live in a world where a cyberattack is even possible.

 

[Chaplain]

Nvm

Here are quotes from one article:

Who Controls The Internet? US Government Hands Over Control To ICANN

"The fact that the U.S. government had the final say over the domain name system never sat well with the rest of the world, especially after 2013 when Edward Snowden revealed the scope of U.S. Internet surveillance. Severing that last tie to the US will allow foreign governments and companies to have confidence that the Internet is outside of the U.S.’ control."

Politicians who opposed the handover—the quest to keep the technical management of the Internet in U.S. control is led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has previously called the handover a “giveaway of our Internet freedom”—argue that online freedom is in jeopardy and allege that authoritarian governments who are members of ICANN can inhibit freedom of speech on the Internet. According to Cruz, “foreign governments and global corporations will have an increased voice within ICANN moving forward,” which can allow them to censor speech.

Leading up to the government ceding power, four Republican state attorneys general from Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas filed a last-minute lawsuit to request an injunction that would prevent the Obama administration from transferring control. The suit argues that "authoritarian regimes like Russia, China, and Iran will now have the ability to interfere with what should be a free and open internet"—which ICANN has rebutted in the aforementioned statement—and by not getting Congress approval, the Obama administration has violated the U.S. Constitution. "The president does not have the authority to simply give away America's pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

 

[Shadowheart]

I am thinking of a large scale outage would do any harm if it was on the day the US election results were published.
Probably not.

 

[george_us]

Years from now, what will you say when they ask where you were during the great Internet outage of 2016?

Browsing GAF

 

[Chaser324]

Florida, using Google DNS.

Spotify is working. Twitter is accessible but all images and links are broken (Tweetdeck also a no go). Slack and GitHub are totally down, which is actually a pretty significant productivity problem for me right now.

 

[jstripes]

In Leslieville right now and twitter and netflix are both completely screwed up.

Netflix works fine for me in the heart of Scarborough.

Tweets are loading, but images in tweets are struggling a bit.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Noooooooooo. the Xcom wikia is done



Someone needs to make these fuckers pay

 

[Nipo]

Woah that SCADA system seems to be used everywhere, welp. Well i'm sure they are well secured, right?



https://inductiveautomation.com/what-is-scada

Yup. the nightmare scenarios i heard a decade ago in my cyber security classes was someone knocking out a dam control system and flooding an area or knocking out gas/electric heat during a cold spell for the midwest/northeast.

 

[Erasus]

Did not notice anything earlier today, but now PSN, EA servers, Spotify and Netflix is down.
Google services all seem to be working.

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

A lot of stuff can be used in DDoS, home routers, IoT stuff, IP cameras and normal computers ofc
Taking down one provider really does have a major impact

Yup. the nightmare scenarios i heard a decade ago in my cyber security classes was someone knocking out a dam control system and flooding an area or knocking out gas/electric heat during a cold spell for the midwest/northeast.

Watch this and see just how much of that stuff is open on the internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWck_xcH64

 

[joebruin]

Florida, using Google DNS.

Spotify is working. Twitter is accessible but all images and links are broken (Tweetdeck also a no go). Slack and GitHub are totally down, which is actually a pretty significant productivity problem for me right now.

same here. it half works. i think i'm just gonna take the day off from work lol

 

[GreyWind]

Can't access Twitter from Vancouver

 

[Fancy Clown]

Whoever said "War never changes" was full of shit man.

MGS IV > Fallout 3

 

[kswiston]

Whoever said "War never changes" was full of shit man.

So what you are saying is that Metal Gear Solid 4 > Fallout 2

MGS IV > Fallout 3

2! Fallout 3 can't even come up with its own lines.

EDIT: It might have been in the first game as well. I haven't played that in almost 20 years though.

 

[enewtabie]

News doesn't seem to think its big deal or anything. Not seeing much.

 

[BronsonLee]

MGS IV > Fallout 3

So what you are saying is that Metal Gear Solid 4 > Fallout 2

I'VE FINALLY CAUGHT YOU REDHANDED

 

[SuperSah]

This thing is OBLITERATING everything.

I can't get onto anything I want to in the UK! I can't get on PSN.

 

[SomTervo]

holy shit

 

[commedieu]

News doesn't seem to think its big deal or anything. Not seeing much.

News(msm) isnt to keep people informed though.

 

[jokkir]

PayPal is down. So many things I want to buy but can't because it wont connect

 

[Jon Arbuckle]

It's finally on the MSN homepage... in a tiny section off to the side called "trending now".

 

[Spiral Insanity]

It's finally on the MSN homepage... in a tiny section off to the side called "trending now".

On NYT it is a tiny article under 'More news'.

Ridiculous.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

All of these websites down yet GAF is up without a hitch? Guys I thinks Evilore sold us out to the Russians.

 

[Pomerlaw]

Twitter being down is pretty good news, no?

 

[cruets]

I make my living off eBay. Can't sell shit today. Can't buy shit

 

[enewtabie]

On NYT it is a tiny article under 'More news'.

Ridiculous.

Sad. A lot of people are talking about this. Something is going on.

ah I'm done. Any good cyber security websites to check out? This stuff is interesting.

 

[Faiz]

Wife called complaining she can't get any services on the PS3 to work, I'm guessing the issue is PSN.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

If there's anything dependent on it, bad things could happen. Although I hope people don't make anything critical dependent on being online.

too late. look at all the online only videogames

 

[kswiston]

All of these websites down yet GAF is up without a hitch? Guys I thinks Evilore sold us out to the Russians.

They did the test run on GAF yesterday.

Either that or Russian Hackers need their Nintendo Switch speculation.

 

[commedieu]

Nothing seems down in cali.

I guess even russia knows the east coast is sus.

 

[Bubba_Sparks]

All of these websites down yet GAF is up without a hitch? Guys I thinks Evilore sold us out to the Russians.

Son of a bitch! The money must have been too good. And I wanted to Believe!

 

[jelly]

Wanna Cyber? Please respond!

Poor PSN, they must be the first name on every Cyber attack list.

 

[norm9]

Everybody talking about that three hour life now.

 

[kswiston]

Son of a bitch! The money must have been too good. And I wanted to Believe!

Nice try. You were clearly a red all along.

 

[civilstrife]

Someone call Trump's 10 year old son. He has computers.

 

[ReAxion]

Dyn Managed DNS advanced service monitoring is currently experiencing issues. Customers may notice incorrect probe alerts on their advanced DNS services. Our engineers continue to monitor and investigate the issue.

Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to reach out to our Technical Support Team.
Posted 28 minutes ago. Oct 21, 2016 - 18:23 UTC

*gawking at racks of servers melting*

 

[Surfinn]

West coast stay winning.

It's happening here too in Northern California. I can't access Twitter or EA's forums.