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I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.
Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:
Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday October 22 2016, @12:14PM
It's pretty clear that the "national security" state want a shooting war with Russia at this point. They've already made darn sure that the likely winner of the presidential election, who is already of a hawkish disposition when it comes to foreign policy, will loathe Putin with a passion upon taking office. And American Pravda, also known as the New York Times, is already running articles on their supposedly unprecedented sneaky tactics [nytimes.com] (never mind that the US military and CIA has done every single thing mentioned in the article for decades) that I'm sure are designed to get Americans thinking about the risks to all of our precious bodily fluids.
So yes, I'm sure the classified briefing that can't be independently verified by anybody will contain "proof" that those nasty Russians are behind it. And the same person who bought into the very obviously faked information that the Iraqis had WMDs and were going to pass them to Osama bin Laden (who Saddam Hussein always hated, the idea that they were allied was ludicrous) will accept this "proof" hook, line, and sinker.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:10PM
> who is already of a hawkish disposition when it comes to foreign policy, will loathe Putin with a passion upon taking office
Sorry, I don't buy that. Clinton and Putin were pretty much at odds since she was secretary of state. She may be a lot of things, but a naife easily led by emotion is not it.
> It's pretty clear that the "national security" state want a shooting war with Russia at this point.
Nah. Shooting war doesn't do much for the intelligence agencies. But a hacking war would. And whether it was with russia or some other group it doesn't really matter, they get full employment either way. I am watching the latest reporting on CBS right now and one of their MILF types said something about russia, but they immediately followed it up with the fact that the US isn't even blaming it on a state and then a talking head was interviewed for many minutes talking about friends-of-wikileaks, grey-hats and a whole bunch of other possibilities.
Its easy to be cynical and see what you expect to see, but so far blaming it on russia isn't getting much traction.