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posted by takyon on Friday October 21 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-the-net dept.

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:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-twitter-internet-down-not-working-broken-paypal-ebay-facebook-instagram-a7374506.html

Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:10PM (#417565)

    > 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.