Now that the actual source (Dyn) put up their work: > Who caused this, and how? A long pattern of up-and-down connectivity, followed by a total outage, seems c

Now that the actual source (Dyn) put up their work: > Who caused this, and how? A long pattern of up-and-down connectivity, followed by a total outage, seems consistent with a fragile network under external attack. But it’s also consistent with more common causes, such as power problems. Point causes such as breaks in fiberoptic cables, or deliberate upstream provider disconnections, seem less likely because they don’t generate prolonged instability before a total failure. We can only guess. The data themselves don’t speak to motivations, or distinguish human factors from physical infrastructure problems. [1] ...it turns out that the DDOS part was indeed pure conjecture and over-hyped BS. Thanks, NY times. Also, they changed the title of the article, if not more. Classy. [1] http://research.dyn.com/2014/12/who-disconnected-north-korea/ http://research.dyn.com/2014/12/who-disconnected-north-korea...