Comment on Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump

• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, no, this makes no sense. However, I have in my life heard some conspiracy theories that were called conspiracy theories at the time that turned out to be true. So I’m not saying that it’s impossible.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am.

    There are absolutely actual conspiracies, but this isn’t one of them. This in no way hurts or helps either candidate, even if it’s somehow a cyber attack (doubt it). Given that there was no real government response here, I don’t see any reason for the government to have colluded with this security company. I think it’s just an oops, and these things happen.

    This is just an attempt to piggy-back off the news cycle and get another mention for your candidate. That’s literally all it is.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should have been more clear. This conspiracy theory is crazy. However, as I have heard conspiracy theories in the past that were labeled as conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, I’m not discounting all conspiracy theories just this particular one.

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      • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Someone pointed out once that the conspiratorial nature of some people is exacerbated by the fact that the government does actually perpetrate real conspiracies. The people don’t inherently trust that the government acts in their best interest, because that trust has been broken often.

        Conspiracy theorists are justified to be paranoid towards government actors, but they are not justified to invent facts for which there is little evidence and draw irrational conclusions upon the possibility of “being right.”

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  • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Homie, I work in IT. I graduated from college with a degree in network security.

    This is a problem caused by companies putting in the minimum of effort to secure their systems and no effort to have a valid server back up strategy.

    I’ll try and keep things high level since I don’t know if you’re in the field or not but you sound like you aren’t. In short, a driver (something low level used for an operating system to interact with a piece of hardware usually) got released which was full of bunk data. That caused a blue screen of death. This is a fixable situation you need to reboot your computer into a mode called “safe mode” and delete the bunk driver.

    That’s not the problem though, the problem is when you use another piece of security software called bitlocker to enceypt your enterprise equipment AND servers. You can’t reboot into safe mode without a decryption key which most companies store on a piece of server software (called active directory) on a server … which is also using both crowdstrike and bitlocker.

    Your data is inaccessible and the best option is to restore from a backup which as we’re seeing, few people have.

    This isn’t a cyber attack. This is human incompetence and business greed.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, trust me, I know. I was the network administrator for a small, not for profit, and so dealt with Windows Active Directory domains and configurations. But I might have had decently good colleagues, because in most cases, they were able to solve their own issues and would only come to me when the obvious things did not work.

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      • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gotcha gotcha, I’ve had to go from zero to hero more times than I can count. It was a mandate at the start ups where I was the sole DevOps guy. It’s been a boon at my large well established company. I’d say I’m not a fan but first I did it I got an unexpected raise so life was good

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