Facebook goes down; taking WhatsApp, Oculus, and Instagram with it
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Dicehunter
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Oh no all the women taking hundreds of pics of their asses everyday for instagram are going to have to do something with their lives now that these services are down for a while :yelrotflmao:
Dawelio
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Seems like the issue is bigger than expected. There have been posts made on Twitter now that Facebook employees, who are the ones who should investigate the issue, can't enter their building offices due to their badges are offline.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736
Also, not sure if this is legit, since I have no knowledge when it comes to this kind of stuff, but also saw this: https://twitter.com/BenjaminEnfield/status/1445104389014835213?s=20
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736
Also, not sure if this is legit, since I have no knowledge when it comes to this kind of stuff, but also saw this: https://twitter.com/BenjaminEnfield/status/1445104389014835213?s=20
Cant be true. Emergency services need access at all times, even if the world goes offline. There always has to be manual alternatives.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
They'll have backups, I mean... I genuinely think if Facebook and Instagram were properly down it would be a good thing but they won't be, They'll be back up in either a few hours or a day or so.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
This is coinciding with the Facebook employee Frances Haugen who only recently, A day or so ago, Became a whistleblower after collecting A LOT of incriminating evidence internally from Facebook over a lengthy period of time.
Me thinks FB are trying to scrub the servers, Zuckerturd must be sweating
Me thinks FB are trying to scrub the servers, Zuckerturd must be sweating
Dawelio
Active member
While that may be true, like everything else in this, what is basically an obligation in terms of the world, in reality it's a different story.
Emergency services needs access at all times, everywhere basically. I can not tell you how many places lack on this point. Even people are parking their cars on the actual emergency roads and hence blocking the emergency services of ever getting through.
This is coinciding with the Facebook employee Frances Haugen who only recently, A day or so ago, Became a whistleblower after collecting A LOT of incriminating evidence internally from Facebook over a lengthy period of time.
Me thinks FB are trying to scrub the servers, Zuckerturd must be sweating
Hmm, interesting... Did not know about this, but seems like a valid point you've got there.
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Avet
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I didn't even know until I saw this post. I chose Google as my only Big Brother. The rest will have to pay them for my data, but that will be a waste of money because i never clicked on an ad.
I have a few friends that are already panicking. If anyone here is addicted to socal media, good luck.
I have a few friends that are already panicking. If anyone here is addicted to socal media, good luck.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Trust me when I say this. You don't need to click on any ad to have to be tracked. A simple Google analytics integration and just connecting to the server I could see where you are roughly in the world. All without your consent.
Not to mention all of the other horrid things the web giants have created in easy to use tools that make tons of money for the digital world.
looz
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Official post, configuration error:
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/
Cloudflare has a more informative post up:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Curiously Facebook has their own implementation of BGP:
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineering/bgp/
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/
Cloudflare has a more informative post up:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Curiously Facebook has their own implementation of BGP:
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineering/bgp/
Avet
Active member
I know I am being tracked. It is inevitable. Google is the only one that has my phone number. I didn't gave it to Microsoft, or Facebook. They may have bought it. I don't have Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter or other apps on my phone. And I have profiles on those only because idiots from work cannot communicate in other ways. As you have said it is easier that way. Like it is hard to use Signal, Viber or other end to end encryption platform.
What can be accessed through a browser I do it that way. Instagram became so desperate to force me to install the app that the notification at the top of the page is permanently there. When I click "Notify me latter" button it does nothing.
Also I live in a buthole of a country and we can't order anything online. Shipping costs and import taxes are insane. I have never purchased a single item online. Only online transactions are game/software purchases. Whenever I can, I pay in cash so not even my bank knows what i purchase. Also I have not linked my credit card to Gogle Pay or other services.
These are just a few. There are many ways to minimize your online footprint. Compared to most people I basically don't exist online.
Kieguru
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You ok?
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
While I applaud your efforts it's still futile. They still have all that information your trying to hide. Sure may require more effort to obtain it, but just using the internet essentially ruins all privacy. Which is BS and should be far more regulated. Even VPNs don't do as much as they claim. Whatever you enter into a website isn't covered by the VPN provider(website owner would use encryption but as we can see all over the internet even then it's not that secure). But that's a different topic.
I'll just leave at I was into web development. I left because of the ethics involved in the tech Industry, at least from a US perspective of what tech companies here do.
To be fair, most tracking is just a way to create large amounts of anonymised big data, that is both of very little risk to individuals and very profitable to sell (Allowing companies to host websites without charging users for access, or allowing cheaper costs of access), and the analytics aspect is very useful to engineers and developers for improving their products and delivering people more reliable services and such. Pretty sure under GDPR data can only be sold and traded if its anonymised (Originally EU law but now applied very widely, and essentially applies to the whole internet as any company that has European customers essentially has to adhere to it).
Of course, there's a very different side to tracking and data collection, which is that done by organisations like the NSA and GCHQ, that side is definitely a mess of morally nefarious uses, but I'm not sure there's much we can do to "protect" from them, anyone with a mobile phone contract or who has bought a SIM card or internet access with anything but a stack of unmarked cash while in a full mask, they can probably get to if they wanted.
Afterall, you can "fingerprint" people on the internet using purely the easily accessible information provided to any website, the combination of hardware and software, including version numbers, display resolution, ect, someone uses to access the web end up being pretty unique from person to person. You can then track the movements of this fingerprint across the internet, and after a number of sites, it would start to get quite easy to ID you as an individual based on your observed browsing history and fingerprint.
There is of course also ways to try to fingerprint people using the safe, legal, "anonymised" data discussed at the top of the post too, but of course nowadays techniques are often deployed for anonymising data more robustly and it's something companies have gotten a lot better at, especially thanks to regulatory pressure from the GDPR and such. Ultimately our biggest risk is private companies f'ing up with handling our data, something they have a very bad track record with, but people and states are becoming far less tolerant of it.
Of course, there's a very different side to tracking and data collection, which is that done by organisations like the NSA and GCHQ, that side is definitely a mess of morally nefarious uses, but I'm not sure there's much we can do to "protect" from them, anyone with a mobile phone contract or who has bought a SIM card or internet access with anything but a stack of unmarked cash while in a full mask, they can probably get to if they wanted.
Afterall, you can "fingerprint" people on the internet using purely the easily accessible information provided to any website, the combination of hardware and software, including version numbers, display resolution, ect, someone uses to access the web end up being pretty unique from person to person. You can then track the movements of this fingerprint across the internet, and after a number of sites, it would start to get quite easy to ID you as an individual based on your observed browsing history and fingerprint.
There is of course also ways to try to fingerprint people using the safe, legal, "anonymised" data discussed at the top of the post too, but of course nowadays techniques are often deployed for anonymising data more robustly and it's something companies have gotten a lot better at, especially thanks to regulatory pressure from the GDPR and such. Ultimately our biggest risk is private companies f'ing up with handling our data, something they have a very bad track record with, but people and states are becoming far less tolerant of it.
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