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Re:Facebook Down? by chaos_emergent on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:40PM (#26744112)
Probably an intern doing something dumb.
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Re:Facebook Down? by vesinisa on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:48PM (#26744234)
If an intern can bring down the whole presence of your company online it's not the intern who is dumb.
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Re:Facebook Down? by dividedbyzero on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:02PM (#26744382)
While that's perfectly true, I'm sure a smart and determined intern could cause an astonishing amount of damage in many many orgs. Hopefully not at Facebook though.
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Re:Facebook Down? by sleepydog on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:22PM (#26744573)
The difference is whether or not it was intentional. If someone can bring everything down accidentally, the system is broken.

Ditto if they can bring it down intentionally and cover their tracks so no one finds out who did it.

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Re:Facebook Down? by abhishekbasu on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:00PM (#26744364)
some startups would like to disagree
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Re:Facebook Down? by jimmy2020 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:50PM (#26744262)
bingo
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Re:Facebook Down? by mateo411 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:45PM (#26744189)
The dumb thing would be giving the intern permission to bring down the whole site.
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Re:Facebook Down? by MattGaiser on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:56PM (#26744317)
An intern shouldn't have those permissions.
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