How come such a large operation does not have an out of bound access in case of emergencies ???
Somebody's getting fired ! -J On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:51 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > It looks like it might take a while according to a news reporter's tweet: > > "Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees > unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of > outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors." > > https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057?s=20 > > -A > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:41 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am starting to see reports that in ISPs with very large numbers of >> residential users, customers are starting to press the factory-reset >> buttons on their home routers/modems/whatever, in an attempt to make >> Facebook work. This is resulting in much heavier than normal first tier >> support volumes. The longer it stays down the worse this is going to get. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net> wrote: >> >>> On 10/4/21 12:11, b...@theworld.com wrote: >>> > >>> > Although I believe it's generally true that if a company appears >>> > prominently in the news it's liable to be attacked I assume because >>> > the miscreants sit around thinking "hmm, who shall we attack today oh >>> > look at that shiny headline!" I'd hate to ascribe any altruistic >>> > motivation w/o some evidence like even a credible twitter post (maybe >>> > they posted that on FB? :-) >>> >>> I personally believe that the outage was caused by human error and not >>> something malicious. Time will tell. >>> >>> However, if you missed the 60 Minutes piece, it was a former employee >>> who spoke out with some rather powerful observations. I don't think that >>> this type of worldwide outage was caused by an outside bad actor. It is >>> certainly within the realm of possibility that it was an inside job. >>> >>> In other news: >>> >>> https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736?s=20 >>> >>> -- >>> Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net >>> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 >>> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV >>> >>
