Re: Internet Gone Down.....
Originally Posted by
Baz46
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For those who may be interested as to the reasons for yesterday's failure of the internet for some websites in some instances:
"A major internet blackout that hit many high-profile websites on Tuesday has been blamed on a software bug.
Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings.
The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run the vast infrastructure that underpins the internet."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224
That made me laugh out loud!
The very idea that a "Customer" has the power to change settings which will bring down his supplier, and much of the internet system, beggars belief.
And the failure rampaging onwards, around the net?
No protection in place then?
Wow! Heads must roll!
My earlier comment, hinting at Ransomware, or Cryptovirology, still appeals to me.
These are problems which the big boys may be very reluctant to own up to falling foul of.
Imagine having to explain how, as a bastion of the IT world, a service supplier finds his company to have been suckered!
Remember, not so long ago, some big UK organisations being done? (Example NHS, I seem to recall).
Not going to happen now! Nobody would ever use him again!
Watch out, instead, for a rapidly growing discussion on my above suggestions, and how to avoid them.
Of course this could be just me doing the Conspiracy Theory stuff...!