Re:AWS Frankfurt incident
by bawolff on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:17PM
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Wow, sounds like the start of some implausible hollywood heist movie.
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Gordon, we cannot predict how long the system can operate at this level, nor how long the reading will take. Please work as quickly as you can. Uh...it's probably not a problem...probably...but I'm showing a small discrepancy in...well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence.
In Tenet, the protagonist and his partner trigger a halon system in a building to force an evacuation as part of a heist.
I remember the summer job I had working in the European HQ of a chemical company. I was managing servers and thus had access to the server room - after the stern safety lecture about the Halon suppression system and being informed that "if the alarm goes off, don't even bother going for the respirator on the wall, just bolt it out of there double quick".
In the first season of Mr Robot, when they want to create financial chaos by wiping records of all debt, iirc they trigger a fire alert in a datacenter to force a backup wipe of some sort.
Re:AWS Frankfurt incident
by freeflight on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:37AM
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They pretty much ransomwared all the digital records on the E Corp servers by encrypting them.
The paper records they destroyed by blowing up a whole building, with hacked UPS systems. [0]
[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2016/mr-robot-rewind-pwning-battery...