Monday, 3 June 2019

Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?







Did The Government Just Test The Internet Kill Switch?

Zero Hedge,
2 June, 2019
"'I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
At 3pmET, it appears that Google Cloud (affecting Gmail, YouTube, SnapChat, Instagram, and Facebook among others) mysteriously (and almost unprecedently) went offline.
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Google Compute Engine Incident #19003 We are experiencing a multi-region issue with Google Compute Engine
Incident began at 2019-06-02 12:25 (all times are US/Pacific).
Jun 02, 20 12:25 We are investigating an issue with Google Compute Engine. We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific.
One Google insider explains (via YCombinator):
I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!).
We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.
There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns downthread), but there is serious packet loss at the least. You'll have to wait for someone actually involved in the incident to say more.
The internet is having a very bad day...
So far, no one has blamed Russia...yet!
Europe is also affected...
Ironically...
Twitter is beside itself...
Did the government just test-fire its Internet kill-switch?

Meanwhile..


Cue the RIOTS . . . EBT System Going Down Nationwide



2 June, 2019

A major outage of Electronic Benefits Cards is developing very fast nationwide, according to DOWNDETECTOR.  The SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is how American welfare recipients "pay" for their food.
The outage with the SNAP/EBT system is happening very fast, and in very many places, particularly in New York City, Chicago and Detroit.
Some are wondering how long it may be before the "under-privileged"begin to riot and burn the cities down?
In the meantime, no explanation for why the system seems to be down nationwide, or when it might come back.
Readers can check the latest status themselves, HERE
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