[Chat Log] April-May 2019

[Charlet]

*collapses in a chair* so this is how it feels when a computer overheats

 

[Eugene]

How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today

Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider.

blog.cloudflare.com

 

[Charlet]

Any idea on how to cool off my feet. Apparently the floor was lava

 

[Deric Storm]

honestly, both verizon and cloudflare are probably to blame

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

Curls up on the couch and nibbles on some ice cream

 

[Charlet]

Hi pitya

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

@Eugene daaaaaaaaaang "verizon knocked large parts of the internet offline" is possibly the blamiest sentence i've ever read

 

[Chase]

Why Your Internet Sucks | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix -- Thought this might be relevant.

 

[Victorique]

Pinkertons don't have anything on it. But they have released some stuff on Singapore and the fact someone hacked classified NASA docs using a Raspberry Pi

 

[Victorique]

Tiny yet powerful little computer

 

[Victorique]

So I was looking into the fact that the us does not have a secretary of defense At All (hasnt for more than a year) and the acting secretary just withdrew...

 

[Victorique]

And the dapartment of defense is set to take over background checks by the fiscal 2020?