I'm just wondering if a programmer I know is responsible!
:hmmm:

According to him? He can drop Nations with some groundbreaking software he has written.

I heard He was going to target China after a test deployment.

He can only affect the server his account is on.

From what I have learned about how fb works your account is placed on a server in your country or in a country near you.

A world wide shutdown indicate it's not a technical problem.

My little sister said it's not the first time FB went down around the globe.

I can't recall it.

Markus

If this Guy says he can do it? I believe he can!
He is the BEST programmer I have EVER met in my life!

I'm wonder if he has brought 'Jack the Ripper' online as a test.

I can't get details on this system right now but it's nothing like any of us here have in our homes!
And the software, according to him, will change things in a way no one can comprehend.

According to the news here in Denmark.

FB has problem with their DNS server.

Maybe this could be the reason to why this breakdown is world wide.

Markus

You have any idea how many DNS Servers are actually out there?
Or how DNS actually works?
Given one has a powerful enough system and the right software?
One could destroy DNS listings World Wide!

Say that system and software hides it self and continues a World Wide attack.
How could you trace and stop it?

I'd not be surprised if I get a knock on my door from the Feds if JTR is live!

A DNS make you come to the right homepage like subsim.com/radioroom when you enter the name in your URL field. You could also enter subsims ip-adress(numbers) directly.

I could be wrong though.

Edit
Made search on how DNS works and found this

End edit

Markus

You are partially correct. But those records are online and can be destroyed!
:03:
DOS attacks are one thing. DNS attacks are a whole different thing!
Given one has a system with enough CPU power behind it, a totally new software doing it, and the bandwidth?

Good luck stopping it!

Then add in the fact he is willing to go to prison after he attacks China?
How soon you think he would be stopped?

Here's FB's IP address.
69.171.228.70

Forgot this information about these DNS-server

Don't know what that mean in plain English.
Especially the last sentence.

Markus

Remember, the internet was invented as a redundant computer network to prevent centralization and keep working even after multiple attacks. Centralizing like FB has proved how easy it is to take that server (servers) offline. I'm guessing the a.i. algorithms made it even easier.

Heh heh! :Kaleun_Cheers:

Anyways, time to go shopping then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeHdZZtr0xk

Facebook is back on

Notifications panel won't work, however: when you try to open a notification you first get "Query Error", then "Oops... something went wrong"

Also, posting isn't working either, so it may as well be down

The tecnical problems seem to have gone beyond FB, since other oparts of the internet have been reporte dform saroudn the globe to have broken down, internet providers saying websites in parts were not accessible, even regionally total blackouts, in germany as well , have been reported. Over here, all provider companies had/have been affected.



A cyberattack is seen as unlikely, since DNS servers, the likely cause of the problems, are too diverse in specs to knock them out simultaneously on such a scale.

It was a man made failure at FB which was the reason to this major breakdown. So it says in a Danish newspaper.

Markus

You nay be right. Most want to blame an "attack". FB has been screwy for at least a month already. It's probably a overload failure of the a.i. algorithms.
Of course I wouldn't rule out an "attack", though if so it would be easy to push it over the edge, metaphorically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WJsp16CpY

a bet a squirrel got into the system causing havoc storing nuts

https://www.attic-solutions.com/wp-c...-nightmare.jpg

If so, a job well done. I know why I love squirrels so much.



A single compoany amassing so manby facets and market accesses, represents a fundamental lump risk, in multiple dimensions: material, financial, cultural, economical, legal, technical...


Too big. Way too big, like many others, too. These become a threat to the common good.