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Or, that when one goes down, people overuse the services of the others, causing them to go down, causing a chain reaction. Not denying the existence of state ac
by ponker 6y ago
Or, that when one goes down, people overuse the services of the others, causing them to go down, causing a chain reaction. Not denying the existence of state actors but they are not a given.
- gamblor956 6y agoSure, that would be a possibility for a different set of tech companies going down, such as if they all shared the same network backbone or overlapping users. But they don't. We're talking about the largest companies in the world, with facilities geo-located around the world, all going down within a few days of each other.
- nixgeek 6y agoYet an attack that large was noticed by none of the major network providers or internet exchange points?
- ponker 6y agoAn attack on a large infrastructure is not necessarily a large attack. Social engineer into one account and disable some cron job somewhere and the infrastructure falls over.