FARK.com: (12480144) "The loss of access to our VPN system to our core network nodes affected our timely ability to begin identifying the trouble and, hence, delayed the restoral efforts," so Canadian phones are Borg technology?

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Mantour

2022-07-25 1:11:31 AM

6 votes:

"The loss of access to our VPN system to our core network nodes affected our timely ability to begin identifying the trouble and, hence, delayed the restoral efforts"

Basically, he was hiding behind 7 proxies.

abbarach

2022-07-25 9:52:38 AM

6 votes:

Zykstar: Lonestar: Any over/under on the possibility that is was a Chinese state sponsored hack?

Perhaps for the Russians?

According to the article, something went wrong on step 6 of a 7 step, multi-week upgrade process. They deleted a routing rule that ended up causing a cascading failure due to an overload. I don't feel like we need the tinfoil hats yet. But we can certainly tell them they farked up and they need to do better.

So they executed the modern day version of this: