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Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually
by modeless 1y ago
Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.
- oblio 1y agoFYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
- cluckindan 1y ago[flagged]
- LunaSea 1y agoLuxembourg too yesterday : https://paperjam.lu/article/panne-de-post-lombre-des-hackers-prorusses https://paperjam.lu/article/panne-de-post-lombre-des-hackers...
- reaperducer 1y agoThe article you linked to states 2,500 reports on DD. Does that count as "major" now?
- cluckindan 1y agoWhy wouldn’t it count if multiple operators are down for multiple thousands of people for several hours? Not even emergency numbers were working.
- reaperducer 1y ago2,500 people out of 70,000,000 isn't "major." And your own link states that 999 service was restored in 61 minutes. Emergency service lines go down somewhere in the world almost every day. Often for longer than that. HN didn't used to be a place for people who like to gin up conspiracies, and engage in speculative hyperbole.
- cluckindan 1y agoThe UK isn’t just somewhere in the world, but whatever, they have worse connectivity in Russia for sure.
- x______________ 1y agoNot a very technical root cause analysis you have there. Can you leave geopolitics out of it until it's confirmed? Other social media networks may tolerate this but this is not HN worthy.
- LunaSea 1y ago[flagged]
- reaperducer 1y agoA geopolitical reason could very well explain this "coincidence". The parent's concern is with the "could" in your sentence. Unlike other web sites, the people of HN used to pride themselves on presenting facts, not speculation. Rumors were left for places like Facebook and now Reddit.
- x______________ 1y agoMy most downvoted post by telling people to keep geopolitics out of a technical discussion. Gfy, thought you were all better. Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service has "now mostly recovered from the network outage" after two and a half hours. "The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again," the tweet, posted at 3:23 p.m. PT, says. https://www.cnet.com/news-live/starlink-restored-after-hours-long-outage-took-down-elon-musks-satellite-internet-service/ https://www.cnet.com/news-live/starlink-restored-after-hours... Edit: funny, can't even access the replies..
- elzbardico 1y ago[flagged]
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- holoduke 1y agoFor now Russia is teaching us on how to use dishwasher chips in a smart way.
- elzbardico 1y agoIncredibly, Americans still think they have any chance of teaching Russia or China "manners". The hubris of a decadent empire. And of course, they have to downvote to hell. They need to keep the illusion that the US is still the most powerful military, the most powerful economy, and that AI will save their hegemony. Really sad.
- lxgr 1y agoAs a former customer, I have complete faith in Vodafone’s ability to take themselves offline without any external help.
- AnotherGoodName 1y agoIf it is a hack there can't be that many suspects, just narrow it down to people/groups/countries that hate Elon Musk.
- airspresso 1y agoI see what you did there
- ElectronCharge 1y agoSure, it's too bad that almost all of that hatred is due to propaganda instead of anything real. If anyone has benefited humanity over the last couple of decades, it's Elon Musk! I'd argue he's done more than anyone!