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31 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:

 

 

 

 

The 2nd tweet is unconfirmed literally fake news until it isn't.

Fixed.

 

Unverified twitter posts with "chatter" are misleading, pure garbage. It would be like me announcing an Eichel trade to the Rangers for some Pizza Hut coupons. "Chatter that some deep dish is in Eichel's future".

 

If anybody reputable comes forward with that, post it. Otherwise, that's part of the "facebook sucks" problem.

 

Twitter sucks too.

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Well, I am having a hard time believing what FaceBook says about the outage - why?  I have been in the IT industry for over 30 years now - you never ever do a change without a back out plan.  If their changed caused this - they should have backed out.

 

Makes me wonder if indeed they were hacked - and if 1.5 billion plus users information been leaked.

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Heretic said:

Well, I am having a hard time believing what FaceBook says about the outage - why?  I have been in the IT industry for over 30 years now - you never ever do a change without a back out plan.  If their changed caused this - they should have backed out.

 

Makes me wonder if indeed they were hacked - and if 1.5 billion plus users information been leaked.

 

 

 

So much for my x rated personal photo albums...damn!

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9 minutes ago, brownky said:

Fixed.

 

Unverified twitter posts with "chatter" are misleading, pure garbage. It would be like me announcing an Eichel trade to the Rangers for some Pizza Hut coupons. "Chatter that some deep dish is in Eichel's future".

 

If anybody reputable comes forward with that, post it. Otherwise, that's part of the "facebook sucks" problem.

 

Twitter sucks too.

Totally agree but rumours and chatter move financial markets. So it is relevant. More so than Eichel being traded for pizza coupons. Facebook is -5% today (yes, I shorted it :ph34r:) and Twitter is also -5%.

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1 minute ago, nuckin_futz said:

Totally agree but rumours and chatter move financial markets. So it is relevant. More so than Eichel being traded for pizza coupons. Facebook is -5% today (yes, I shorted it :ph34r:) and Twitter is also -5%.

The chatter moves the markets, but re-posting garbage to generate chatter *is* the problem.

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3 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

 

LOL - yep:

 

$ dig facebook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> facebook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 20274
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;facebook.com.            IN    A

;; Query time: 260 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 04 14:01:41 PDT 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 41

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hahahahaha - idiots:

$ whois facebook.com
   Domain Name: FACEBOOK.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2320948_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrarsafe.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.registrarsafe.com
   Updated Date: 2021-09-22T19:33:41Z
   Creation Date: 1997-03-29T05:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2030-03-30T04:00:00Z
   Registrar: RegistrarSafe, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 3237
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abusecomplaints@registrarsafe.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-650-308-7004
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
   Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: B.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: C.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: D.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2021-10-04T21:05:37Z <<<


They changed their name servers - so if the domain facebook.com is unavailable - so are the DNS servers!  
No one can resolve.  But, let's see if the ip is cached:

 

$ dig  A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM

; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14683
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM.    4755    IN    A    129.134.30.12

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 04 14:07:46 PDT 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 62



It is - let us see if it knows:

 

$ dig @129.134.30.12 facebook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> @129.134.30.12 facebook.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached



Hmnnn - looks like the server is either down or NTP is down on it...

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16 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

I could be wrong but I'm thinking most investors aren't making buying decisions in their portfolios based on posts on CDC...

Correct, most are not. HOWEVER: If someone reads fake news, and decides to "buy it", they forward it (IE read it on twitter themselves or make it up), post it elsewhere, then maybe two or three more buy it. And so on.

 

And you get viral fake news, which by way of impact by propagation gains 'traction' as far as how "true" it is - "Look how many people think this is true, it must be true!"

 

Not saying this particular instance will or does result in that. But it's how it spreads. So I am the change I wish to see in the world, I 'cancel fake news' and all that when I see it. I don't chase down the internet yelling FAKE NEWS - but if I cross paths with it, I will highlight the idiocy of it, and usually anything with weasel words.

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