I know that a social media site trying to carry the mantle of respectability might deactivate accounts indicated to be nefarious, but if I understand rightly, the accounts in questions were expressing views supportive of a person considered sufficiently aligned with X's overall themes of far right idiocy (by dint of being wealthy and by snuggling with Trump), so I ask out of earnest curiosity: why would X take down such accounts?

I'm guessing someone could actually explain at a technical level exactly how these particular makes/models/configurations would DDoS "itself". Or better yet, have someone produce the actual audit trail of the events leading up to the network crashing, as every router is capable of logging.

You know, for shits and taxpayers sake. Make sure that cover story lines up with a $50B request. See who's asking for that pocket change.

When a twenty-something strong network of nodes that controls air traffic handoff for every aircraft traveling between ATC towers (lets call it Achilles for DNS's sake) is targeted for a demonstration of just how weak our decades old system truly is regarding felling key dominos, it tends to scream one thing.

Red Team.

Duffy's Debrief was portraying the old man yelling at old systems so hard that he might as well been called Red Foreman.

C'mon folks. Zero risk to any American at any time, followed up by a whole lot of nothing terrorist to see here, move along EXCEPT FOR MUH FUNDING I TELLS YA! WE NEEDS IT NOW!

It's click-bait. You know the equation.

Money + Beauty = eyeballs

Indeed, but it was accidental. I'm not sure the significance either way.

Maybe they should fix reviews on their own site before trying to handle the entire internet.

Amazon isn't trying to do anything. Amazon execs are trying to make proposals that increase their impact factor, hoping to get promoted.

His latency is high but you have to admit installing him as a router would be an improvement.

Bush harnessed the chaos of 9/11 to invade Iraq. What a waste of a crisis.

Wow, I would have done it for $1 billion.

It might be.

They are, they do. It's called "responsible disclosure," but it was named that by gaslighters.

If Microsoft cared, they would have implemented standard practices to avoid security bugs.

They didn't, they don't.

* looks back at the Edumucashun Google technology is delivering, one doomscrolling useful idiot after another *

Who do you think will care for the elderly? Think I’m complaining because math test next week? If you think the kids are dumb now by comparison, just wait until they birth a Magnificent idiot replacement. Or seven. Billion.

By all means, sit back and defend the status quo with silence. It’s how WFH was destroyed in favor of Hypocritical Greed justifying a polluting commute to a pointless office building, because that’s a lovely 401k full of corrupt commercially-priced dirt you’ve got in your retirement portfolio..and it would be a shame if someone stayed at home and something happened to our investments. FUCK going Green. Our commercial real estate corruption is more valuable than commute pollution.

Speak up now. Boldly. Your kids will thank you for at least trying to fight for their children’s education. If Google AI is that necessary in school, then we apparently don’t need educators anymore.

Accessory to a crime unless you can plausibly show that you thought it would be used for non-criminal reasons (like if you sold it to the government).