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After reading the ZIP bomb article also linked on HN, I have copied the largest file to my iCloud drive for fun. And an hour later, I'm reading that most of iC
by pilif 7y ago
After reading the ZIP bomb article also linked on HN, I have copied the largest file to my iCloud drive for fun.
And an hour later, I'm reading that most of iCloud is down. I really hope this is a funny coincidence. And if not, then I'm terribly sorry.
- your_bully 7y agoDon't give yourself too much credit
- wybiral 7y agoHey, at least it's as likely as some of the weird conspiracy theories being floated around.
- walrus01 7y agoMaybe somebody copied the zip bomb onto the battery charge controller subsystem of the russian submarine cable tapping submarine.
- pilif 7y agoI was tongue in cheek. Of course I didn’t cause this. I imagine I must have been the millionst and one person to try this. It’s just a funny coincidence and I enjoyed toying with the thought
- dang 7y agoHey, could you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with? We're trying for a bit better than this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mr_sturd 7y agoThink they tried to scan it for malware?
- jokoon 7y agoCan you try again to make sure?
- therein 7y agoAs far as my memory goes, iCloud features at least 99 partitions. The 99th of which is the "staging" partition where the iCloud employees' data lives. All partitions are more or less separated and shouldn't affect one another. For that reason, it probably wasn't you that broke the whole system. Even the Cassandra they use for metadata storage is partitioned and separated.
- cordite 7y agoSo, it is fair to say this is just the full stack (endpoints, databases, etc) being sharded consistently?
- therein 7y agoYup, correct. The whole stack is consistently sharded. They should be sharing little to no machinery at all and only a handful of people are able to use the "migration" tool to force your account from one partition to the other. What had struck me as an interesting vector back when I was involved with iCloud was how this ability could be used to move an account from a production partition to the staging partition as staging partition has unique debugging and tracing capabilities. When an employee joins iCloud, their account is often moved from the production partition to the staging partition using this tool. Technically it should be possible to take any iCloud account and move it to this partition and use the slightly modified code in there to gain access to the contents of the account.
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- photojosh 7y ago> The 99th of which is the "staging" partition where the iCloud employees' data lives. As in, if there's a failure in iCloud code, it'll affect employees who worked on that code before everyone else? Good use of dogfooding!
- OrgNet 7y agoupload a different sized one next time, with a new filename
- postmortimus 7y agoNope, just a typical network hardware failure in a west coast datacenter, which triggered a cascading BGP failure disrupting much of the network connectivity in that DC.
- leemailll 7y agoCould that because of the earthquake?
- mandeepj 7y agoCan you try again a few times? Let's see if it's reproducible. I think you are not at fault :-)