June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

A friend who has in-laws living in Dubai said:

some of the school's' remote learning apps don't work because local companies used local infrastructure.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea

Don't make me root for people taking out data centers

[resuna@ohai.social]

@0xabad1dea

Unplanned rapid disassembly.

[ilumium@eupolicy.social]

@0xabad1dea oh the objects created sparks and fire, wonder what it could have been

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@flipper
How can one prevent being a victim of that apocalypse?

[mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie]

@icecolbeveridge @Rairii to be fair, if Iran did manage to hit us-east-1, would anyone believe the ensuing outage was actually war-related, as opposed to business as usual for AWS?

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

AWS outage: heat death of solar system sun. referred to as "outage due to higher than usual seasonal temperatures"

[al1ce_rabb1t@horny.jetzt]

@0xabad1dea "rapid unscheduled transformation of our digital firewall into a physical fire wall"

[woody@pleroma.pch.net]

@0xabad1dea

Haven't we always been at war with Eurasia?

[nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems]

@0xabad1dea They posted a more honest update now, "physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes".

[dct@mastodon.online]

@0xabad1dea Next up: Electromagnetic disturbance (area-wide blackout due to nuclear missile)

[canuckduff@mas.to]

@0xabad1dea So, kitchen utensils? Small furniture?

[dss@infosec.exchange]

@eestileib @HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea Of it was a nuke, it wouldn't be back up any time soon. But it also wouldn't be from Iran. Israel or the US have nukes though. Neither are part of the worldwide nuclear monitoring program, unlike, er, Iran...