What if Facebook just shutdowned themselves to remove something dirty that otherwise might have made them subpoenable?
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They dont need 6 hours of nuking their entire ASN from BGP to do that. When it comes to making things disappear, they are the kings.
No idea if it was to cover anything up. We're talking about the network access here and not physical servers with data storage. Would be a different conversation if the network was fine (able to visit the webpage) but all of a sudden peoples' accounts were gone or database errors.
It does put the meter closer towards something facebook did or something that happened specifically at facebook, rather than a higher level DNS outage or network tiering issue.
It was extremely specific and happened way too quickly almost like some one "pulling the plug". But in big companies like facebook you can't just unplug the telephone line and go offline, there is a plethoria of tech to keep these large company networks going. So its definitely an oddity.
Some one either found the perfect vulnerability or some one knew(or inadvertently did) exactly the right combination of things to do to make it happen so quickly. IT experts will be using this as case study on how not do to what just happened and cyber experts will be laughing because they have been talking about threat vectors like this for a long time.
If hackers had the opportunity to delete the DNS records, it would be more likely they would change it to forward to a silly website or a spoof website instead of just deleting the record.
A theory I had is that Zuckerberg wanted to shut down his sites to stop the Project Veritas video before its release and before they knew what it was going to contain. If O’Keefe was uploading to YouTube, to make his 8pm release time, he would have wanted to start the upload around 4pm or 5pm to allow for processing and compression. Could it be once that upload happen (but before it was released) YouTube provided Zuckerberg with the video and once they decided it wasn’t something THAT damaging (i.e., nothing they couldn’t suppress) they then decided to relaunch Facebook and his other sites.
Not saying this is what happened. Just a theory.
Theories are good, they show us we can still use our intelligences, even if they differ: we each have our own sensibilities and even if one’s own theory is wrong, it might still point one another to a better theory.
Another theory: what if white hats shut down FB in order to purge illicit data FB had collected on us? Think private messages, photos, videos, conversations, etc.
It's a good theory but I disagree with it. She's insinuating there was a DDOS attack and there was none, you also don't need to shut down everything to "clean up" data. Cleaning up data has zero to do with availability of FB or any of the subs they own, and the one major thing is this "whistle blower" is a fraud who was cooked up by FB themselves! No, the shutting down was white hat and for what reason? I don't know. Was it a warning or was is something else? They also lost physical access to equipment as well as all data access for that time frame so this is much more than a simple DDOS or hack. This was military grade what happened.