CenturyLink outage led to a 3.5% drop in global web traffic:
US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all over the internet.
Due to the technical nature of the outage -- involving both firewall and BGP routing -- the error spread outward from CenturyLink's network and also impacted other internet service providers, ending up causing connectivity problems for many more other companies.
The list of tech giants who had services go down because of the CenturyLink outage includes big names like Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft (Xbox Live), EA, Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Reddit, Hulu, Duo Security, Imperva, NameCheap, OpenDNS, and many more.
Cloudflare, which was also severely impacted, said CenturyLink's outward-propagating issue led to a 3.5% drop in global internet traffic, which would make this one of the biggest internet outages ever recorded.
If someone can cause this much chaos accidentally, how much damage could someone deliberately cause?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:01AM (1 child)
We are back to scaremongering??
Take an car analogy. There are giant pileups of cars every winter in America and all over the world. For example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQUSpHutpDI [youtube.com]
so if we get that much pileup by "accident", imagine what would happen if this was intentional?? Oh wait, that happens all the time too... idiots stealing cars and doing a demolition derby. Like here in Germany some "terrorist wannabe" was crashing onto motorcycles but did a lot less damage than a regular day on the roads by the "oh, so careful drivers". The giant pileups are not caused by intention but by the weather instead.
You do realize that most people don't want to see it burn as they burn as some sort of revenge? And then these people fail because they are driven by emotion and not rationality?
So why do we always need scaremongering? Is that the only thing the submitter can contribute in their "analysis"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:09PM
For all man tries, we can't seem to hold a candle to the power of the earth arrayed against us.