Re:Twitter was down
by indigochill on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:23PM
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I've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment:
1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto.
2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure.
2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.
1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto.
2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure.
2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.