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Internet Down (massive outages west and east coasts)
Gizmodo ^ | Today | Giz

Posted on 10/21/2016 11:51:23 AM PDT by jessduntno

Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.

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To: jessduntno

Maybe this is a practice run to see if the pollsters returns can be obliterated for the election. If no connectivity, no returns, no early calls, no late vote returns, less shenanigans.


41 posted on 10/21/2016 1:11:44 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: jessduntno

Katherine Herridge of Fox News just reported on this on Cavuto’s show.


42 posted on 10/21/2016 1:30:10 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: deport

Oops, thought that was map of America’s cancer.


43 posted on 10/21/2016 1:35:27 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: 4integrity

Twitter back in Fla


44 posted on 10/21/2016 1:38:47 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: jessduntno

I’ve been having problems with Photobucket for about the last year. Lots of pop ups.

Today it was impossible to link anything to Photobucket.

What a mess!


45 posted on 10/21/2016 1:43:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Evil women. Jezebel, Athaliah, Livia Drusilla, Messalina, Lucrezia Borgia, Hillary Clinton)
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