A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
Not mysterious they fucking know
Got ICE blackbagging people and we got the resistance trying to fight back
Knocking out communications in war time is classic strategy
You always have the most bizarre stupid takes. The creativity is fascinating.
why is it whenever I see you post, it’s something batshit crazy with a bunch of downvotes?
I’m assuming it’s because they’re batshit crazy
Absolute bonkers speculation and it’s wild that it got as many upvotes as downvotes.
There’s not even a hint of a suggestion that these two things would be related and it’d be a pretty stupid move to pull. This doesn’t hinder ICE that much and massively hinders many people all around the globe. Want to hinder communications? You’d jam ICE radios, not my muffin recipe website, (some) fediverse instances, and thousands of other websites.
Go outside, breath some air, recalibrate. This level of obsession is not good for you and won’t help the good causes you want to help either.
Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don’t know the details of current US events, just that they’re crazy and depressing.
We probably won’t know for a while.
Why DDoS Cloudflare when they could just pressure them directly like they did with BBC or Paramount? I know this administration isn’t exactly the brightest but that doesn’t seem like something they’d do.
I thought OP was saying people are resisting ICE by DDoSing CloudFlare while you might be thinking ICE (therefore the administration) is attacking CloudFlare. Either way, it doesn’t make much sense lol
They suspended access to WARP from London during the outage, so I guess the traffic was originating/hitting that location
This is a much more positive view than mine, which is that AI corps are trying to make the rest of the internet less reliable to drive traffic to themselves but it failed/backfiredI’d only heard about X before reading the articlechatgpt and claude were both down
Local LLM was up the whole time.
Better privacy, better uptime.
not the point. the point was that “conspiracy of ai corporations to drive traffic to themselves” doesn’t make much sense.