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By Alan “Lorax” Hirsch
About 1500 people attended the science rally Friday March 7th at the Sacramento state capitol — 1/3 carrying unique home made signs. Who says scientists are not creative?! Evidence of people from UC Merced, Sac State, government agencies and of course UC Davis.
Davis’s Beth Bourne seemed the only counter protestor. She was escorted off capitol grounds to the street side sidewalk by CHiP officers because of her disruptive chanting.
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Re: The glitch several days ago when Twitter/X went offline, apparently due to what is called a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack:
“And considering some glaring technical oversights, the hackers seem to have had a surprisingly easy time taking down the social media platform. Security researchers told Wired that several X origin servers, which are designated to respond to web requests, weren’t secured by the company’s Cloudflare protection.
Cloudflare offers services allowing websites to automatically detect and mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, like the most recent cyberattack targeting X.
“The botnet was directly attacking the IP and a bunch more on that X subnet yesterday,” independent security researcher Kevin Beaumont told Wired. “It’s a botnet of cameras and DVRs.”
Put simply, X was ill-prepared, despite DDoS attacks being an extremely common threat to virtually all services on the internet. The company’s loose protections may have even allowed the incident to be far worse than it would’ve been otherwise. [emphasis added]
It’d be far from the first time X has been thrown into chaos due to questionable decision-making and a bevy of bugs.”
https://futurism.com/reason-twitter-went-down-embarrassing
I just read where many companies that used to advertise on Twitter are returning.
https://techstartups.com/2024/11/15/major-advertisers-including-ibm-disney-and-comcast-return-to-x-amid-fcc-scrutiny-of-newsguard/
“The glitch several days ago when Twitter/X went offline”
Name a website that hasn’t had a glitch or hasn’t gone offline.
Keith, did you even read my comment, much less the article? The point wasn’t that there was an outage. The point was that the cause of this type of outage
is well known and easily prevented by those with the relevant technical knowledge. It doesn’t take much to surmise that Musk’s indiscriminate firing when he joined Twitter went just a bit too far. And that seems pretty analogous to what he is doing to the government, as when he dismissed the people who knew how to maintain nuclear equipment and then had to try to hastily hire them back.
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