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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He probably just didn't pay a bill and thinks that's an attack

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

That would be so incredible funny :D

Imagine not paying for your datacenter and the hoster putting something personal (rightfully so in this case) on your homepage.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, he wanted to move a server on his own, again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No time to unplug the cables, I have an axe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the government will pay the bill for him

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Read: American taxpayers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Or doesn't know what a VPN is.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey, Anonymous: You should make the url redirect to Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Let me spin that for you so you see the problem.

Mastodon, the social network backed by terrorists. By signing up, you put your name on a FBI watchlist as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fair point.

Redirect it to Blue Sky instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My oopsie. Clarification above.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

........ can a brother get a source on this??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It wasn't true. I wasn't even trying to deceive anyone, but the problem is that people will mostly believe without asking for sources if they don't care. I put an edit above now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they can change the page to a message, then they probably have the access needed to redirect the URL.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh nvm, I wasn't aware they'd done that. The article only talks about the outage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Unless they can edit DNS records, but that's even harder to do.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, I'm sure CISA can help!

Oh, they did what to CISA?

Oh no...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

somehow I doubt this was a cyber attack and his teams ineptitude is just using them as scapegoats

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

"In the Ukraine area"... Smells like code for "Russia" that Trump is going to use as additional rationale for abandoning Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no gee villagers, that just the worst by golly gosh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Not sure if this is a case of Bone Apple Tea or not, but the phrase is “Gee Willikers”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly would love it so much if Anonymous saved the world from this shit. That's like teen dystopian drama level.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well anyone can be anonymous it’s about the idea not some kind of elite hermetic group, it’s all of us and only we (the people) can save ourselves from the authoritarians

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So what I meant is that no one else will do this for you, you are anonymous. We must act in ways we are able

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yes. I know. 😶

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Historically Tesla's security is as bad as DOGE's. They got hacked a while back because they had an unsecured kubernetes control plane exposed to the internet. Apparently being owned by a [edit: seagull managing] drug addict isn't good for opsec.

EDIT: I incorrectly used a medical term to describe Elon's management style. Sorry everyone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey @[email protected], I realize you're not trying to be hurtful to anyone in this comment (except maybe Musk, but honestly fuck that guy) but including a common condition that many folks live with in a list of things that make Musk a bad manager likely is hurtful to those people, even if that's not your intention. If Elon does have ADHD, that's clearly not the problem since I suspect we all know tons of people with ADHD who are a) great at their jobs and b) not trying to dismantle the United States. In the future, please try to "Be(e) Nice".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey hey hey do not associate adhd peeps with that thug, that’s offensive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah for sure. And regardless, I know some great security engineers who are ADHD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Move fast and break things tends to create broken systems.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hope these people covered their tracks, dont want the Trump's people going after you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's back up and working fine:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

He is going to say Ukraine did it and use this as an excuse to shut off starlink for Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Heyyy, it's chanology style anonymous. Nice.