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Canada, Australia, SK, UK, Germany, France, Poland, and Singapore have middling-to-great tech resources, but not the resources to take down global access to the
by gamblor956 6y ago
Canada, Australia, SK, UK, Germany, France, Poland, and Singapore have middling-to-great tech resources, but not the resources to take down global access to the 3 biggest companies in the world.
Only 3 countries have the resources for that: the US, Russia, and China.
- aeyes 6y agoAnybody with access to a large enough botnet can take down services, it isn't rocket science.
- gamblor956 6y agoTrue. But a botnet large enough to take down Microsoft, Apple, and Google without being detected would have to be extremely large or well-hidden, so if it is a botnet, then it's even stronger evidence of a state actor.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoAnd yet many such botnets exist and are actively attacking all day long, yet aren't taking down the major professional services outside of tiny temporary corners.
- neom 6y agoI'm super curious why you think that? A 17 year old from Florida tweeted as Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Barack Obama. Why couldn't the Canadian government do it?
- Zren 6y agoObtaining Admin access on Twitter probably can't take down Twitter. Although, an admin might be able to run heavy tasks that a normal user can't access to DOS the service. That hypothetical would be even easier for sysadmin's to track down though since I believe only a single admin account was compromised.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoNot really. The Twitter hack was a community admin (account data, customer service rep), not a sysadmin (software config)
- npunt 6y agoTwitter isn't anywhere in the same league as Apple/Google/Microsoft in terms of security.
- neom 6y agoIt was an anecdote. If a 17 year old can socially engineer twitter, I don't think it's crazy to think that a room of comp sci PhDs in South Korea couldn't figure out how to mess with infrastructure, in fact I'm quite sure they could. There are not 3 countries in the world who could cause this type of outage, there are many.
- jrockway 6y agoDo we know a lot about Apple's internal reliability/security engineering? Google writes books about it and has things like Project Zero. Windows is used by governments everywhere and so Microsoft probably has some contacts in high places. I have never heard anything about Apple.