Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by timdaub on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:08PM
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Yeah but journalists are happy to connect the dots between the two stories and honestly my brain loves the coincidence of these two thingy being clustered: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-faceboo...
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by timdaub on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:08PM
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Yeah but journalists are happy to connect the dots between the two stories and honestly my brain loves the coincidence of these two thingy being clustered: but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online.
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by anigbrowl on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:09PM
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That is in no way gonna make people forget the whistleblower story - if anything, it's gonna increase the antipathy to having a single point of failure. Face it, everyone hates FB, even the people who spend the most time on it.
With respect I am pretty sure that the most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is this one.
Holistically I agree that this isn't the kind of distraction Facebook wants, although it tickles me to imagine Mark in the datacenter going Rambo with a pair of wire cutters.