newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:37 pm It’s a more insidious attack. The attackers wiped the pointer address to Facebook and other related accounts from the address manager on their servers.

Basically, when one types in an address, say ‘Facebook’, the request goes to a DNS name server. The server actually translates the name into the general IP number for the website. The website then takes the request and then checks the account and delivers the correct home page to correct user.

This attack blanked out Facebook servers pointing to the correct pages.

At least this my understanding from the news reports coming in.

new kid;
wrong again ( if you believe FB) I am sure the security at FB is second to only one or 2 countries

Who TF is Facebook, Instagram and Whatssapp !! ??
What can it be a beautiful world without these things !!
Thats why i didnt have them, even didnt know they where conected !! ??

cambo swa wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:33 am I despise FB also, but I am finding more and more companies and businesses no longer have websites, only FB pages. So FB is no longer just social media (chatting, gossiping, bullying), it is the main and sometimes only source of advertisement and public promotion for millions of businesses.

Ditto. I also freely admit to not really understanding it.
I’m a member of a couple of car clubs and their associated fora. In one particular case, the more social members branched off towards FB. Initially, it did make sense for things like annual events and spontaneous get together. (I very seldom get involved as I’m not overly sociable*). It’s got to the point where the club membership majority aren’t even aware of the actual club that they are sort of members of. Worse, they keep asking the same technical questions that were answered and catalogued 15years ago. Attention spans of a swiping finger. Worse still; they keep getting and taking advice from fuckwits who can navigate FB, but haven’t a clue which way to swing the spanner.
FB seems to be as muddled as the folk who co-exist in it, and I find myself a willing dinosaur. I absolutely do not want to become like them.

It’s a plague, I tell you.

Rant! And when a company can have HR people schooled in the use of FB, and monitoring social media, and trapping people, but can’t spell or type worth a damn…




*I have an increasingly low tolerance towards fucktardery, and being surrounded by them for more than a couple of hours has me contemplating the merits of Bill Foster(Michael Douglas) responses.

Facebook was the first to remove the anonymous nature of the internet. Used to be forums and the like. Far more fun imo.