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Maverick

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I'm not sure if the outage had anything to do with DPF going down?

CRESA911 Alerted me (below), called and emailed (below) me that 911 was down
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This all started after 11pm last night but earlier in the day I was experiencing access problems to many websites including DPF, my bank couldn't function, hospitals couldn't access patients records, ATMs didn't work, 911 centers were down, cascade affect to AT&T networks mainly cell sites, Internets were down, websites down including multiple cloud services, this was far reaching from New York to California to Canada, also impacted 15 data center. CenturyLink stated the problem was a "NETWORK ELEMENT" and what the hell is a network element? poltergeist? some scifi element? whatever it was it was a single point failure! That should be bothersome to the whole nation and scary!

Another point on the matter, CRESA911 emailed all my current emails but the one email account is very puzzling and the main point to this post. when I created the account on DPF in 2012 I also created an email account that's only used for DPF, it has never been used anywhere else and I only access this account on my iphone, somehow CRESA911 known this account (how?) the account was never setup on this computer nor the phone, it was setup on another computer in another state using a totally different name, in fact the email was setup on a server in another country, the only common denominator is my phone and I know DPF didn't share the email, this just as weird as the 'network element' that taken down CenturyLink.

At this point, the FCC and Homeland Security are investigating this

These are the impacted cloud service in the US, GB, Canada, Australia, Germany and Singapore

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It happen early in eh day for me. I could not access th forum at all yesterday and I do use Centurylink as my provider, so maybe it was a double whammy. I kept getting dropped. I even reset my routers and modem, just to see if that helped, no joy. Sorta glad it was not just me. Don't wish bad on other members but it does help to know it was not my system.
 
Not sure if your number is included in your post. You might want to edit it. I have no idea what someone would gain from it, but there is always a crack pot out there.
 
Urbanprep said:
It happen early in eh day for me. I could not access th forum at all yesterday and I do use Centurylink as my provider, so maybe it was a double whammy. I kept getting dropped. I even reset my routers and modem, just to see if that helped, no joy. Sorta glad it was not just me. Don't wish bad on other members but it does help to know it was not my system.
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WSU set up our internet access that uses microwave setup, when we get to the tower (owned by WSU and USGS) its just my computer that gets sent to a DSL carrier (CenturyLink) I'm not sure how it works but I think our data is tunneled except for me the tunneling ends, but either way all the sites I choose to visit must be approved by WSU IT team.
 
Arcticdude said:
I didn't have internet or email on my phone yesterday. Didn't really care and it didn't have any impact. It could go down for good and it wouldn't bother me too much.
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No, I agree, it could go down and it wouldn't bother me but I was pretty much locked out of my bank, couldn't make any transactions. Another problem the news talked about this afternoon was folks couldn't get there prescriptions filled. The hospital 70 miles north of me couldn't access the patients records, one of the patients was having kidney surgery today and had to delay it.... These people (emergency service providers) are setting us up for failure when these damn institutions don't keep any of this information locally.

Least for me, I have hard copies of my medical records I always take with me if I go anywhere, this technology crap is going to hurt a lot of people that trust the system.
 
Technology is to assist but not be depended upon. I have my written medical records. I keep cash. The system will make sure that when it hits the fan, 90% are going to be goners. Won't have cash, won't have food, won't have fuel, won't have access to any funds and WILL be screwed..
 
Urbanprep said:
Technology is to assist but not be depended upon. I have my written medical records. I keep cash. The system will make sure that when it hits the fan, 90% are going to be goners. Won't have cash, won't have food, won't have fuel, won't have access to any funds and WILL be screwed..
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I keep enough cash for transactions in the bank the rest ain't in a bank, luckily I don't need a bank for food and the fuel bill is paid once a year in cash when they fill up my big tanks here.
 
Maverick said:
I keep enough cash for transactions in the bank the rest ain't in a bank, luckily I don't need a bank for food and the fuel bill is paid once a year in cash when they fill up my big tanks here.
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Good solid plan and method of living. Food, fuel and cash on hand. Along with the ammo, and Mav is all set.
 
jimLE said:
First one is about the different services that is or was having difficulties. 2nd one is about recent solar flares thats been taking place.

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My app was tripped but it was a high altitude disturbance that affected satellites like satellite tv and radio and some communication in space, it wasn't powerful enough for anything on the ground to be concerned with.
 
Maverick said:
More on this: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...enturylink-wake-nationwide-911-outage-n952681

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Fixed the link
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In the southeast, about all the internet goes through AT&T somewhere near Atlanta. A lot of times, all it takes is someone with a backhoe to cut off a lot of people’s internet and phone service.

Years ago, they found a fiber optic cable buried about 3 feet under a pasture. A county employee didn’t have any idea about having to get stuff like this checked, and back then, the county would bury dead livestock for residents for ‘free’. I heard that it cost the county nearly half a million dollars....

Since then, someone in southeast Tennessee was digging a ditch with one and cut another fiber cable. A lot of Alabama, Mississippi and TN’s internet went out and there was nothing anyone could do about of there than wait for it to get fixed, which took into that night.
 
Is it time for my Tin Foil Hat yet? What about a few foreign hackers testing out the waters to take the grid / internet down? Too soon? okay I will put it back in the drawer.
 
Urbanprep said:
Is it time for my Tin Foil Hat yet? What about a few foreign hackers testing out the waters to take the grid / internet down? Too soon? okay I will put it back in the drawer.
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It's never too soon to take out your tinfoil hat. It could be anything and being aware of the possibilities, however remote, is smart.
 
KateMTx said:
It's never too soon to take out your tinfoil hat. It could be anything and being aware of the possibilities, however remote, is smart.
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Spent the first third of my life with my head in the sand. Spent the next third enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of life. Spending the rest of my life planing what to do with the sights,sounds and smells. The first third of my life was like crossing the prairie, just plodding along. The next was like climbing the highest mountain peaks, lots of work and effort. The rest is now coasting down the mountain side, enjoying the scenery. Not rich or famous but loving life.
 
All CenturyLink said "Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado" One network card took out 15 cloud service, 911 from coast to coast, interrupted AT&T and Verizon services, prevented hospitals from accessing patient records, took down websites, prevented some banks from processing transactions etc... 21st century and half the country relies on one network card...

Anyone that buys this pile of **** explanation has marbles loose! I'm not tech savvy but with all the redundancy in place one little network card can take down half the country? I call bologna in spades!!

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Maverick said:
All CenturyLink said "Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado" One network card took out 15 cloud service, 911 from coast to coast, interrupted AT&T and Verizon services, prevented hospitals from accessing patient records, took down websites, prevented some banks from processing transactions etc... 21st century and half the country relies on one network card...

Anyone that buys this pile of **** explanation has marbles loose! I'm not tech savvy but with all the redundancy in place one little network card can take down half the country? I call bologna in spades!!

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A lot of the time stuff like this happens, SO THEY SAY, there is redundancy built in, BUT if the failover doesn’t work right (like it wasn’t tested), it’s a massive bitch to find the problem. Plus, the bad network equipment may be in the boonies.

Not sayin that they told the truth, but it is possible. Probable, I don’t know.

As far as individual services going down, the service, if important, damn well have a completely different path to the web. Where I work does, and it is tested biweekly. One route through Atlanta, the other goes towards the west. I find it hard to believe that a hospital doesn’t host their own data. Expensive, yes, but damn...
 
WGregMiller said:
A lot of the time stuff like this happens, SO THEY SAY, there is redundancy built in, BUT if the failover doesn’t work right (like it wasn’t tested), it’s a massive bitch to find the problem. Plus, the bad network equipment may be in the boonies.

Not sayin that they told the truth, but it is possible. Probable, I don’t know.

As far as individual services going down, the service, if important, damn well have a completely different path to the web. Where I work does, and it is tested biweekly. One route through Atlanta, the other goes towards the west. I find it hard to believe that a hospital doesn’t host their own data. Expensive, yes, but damn...
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All the hospitals here have access to patients records including xrays if needed, it is stored on a cloud service that's supposed to have redundancy, 911 suppose to have multiple redundancies but this single point was able to take it all down, that's downright scary.
 
Sorry folks but I am putting the Tin Foil Hat back on. This is not believable to me. Something big hit the net and this is being covered up. Not tech savvy on networks but I do know about redundancy and testing. This fish has been left out in the sun too long and it smells. JM2c
 
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