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  1. Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 22:35:27 EDT Rysiekúr Memesson Rysiekúr Memesson

    Wow:

    "Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries. (...)

    An Internet expert explained that Sunday's problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the world's fastest route to YouTube. "

    https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344105&page=1

    In conversation Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 22:35:27 EDT from mastodon.social permalink

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      Pakistan causes YouTube outage for two-thirds of world
      from ABC News
      Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet's vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic...
    1. rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 23:33:19 EDT rocky1138 rocky1138
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      I've read that this is from 2008. Is that true?
      In conversation Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 23:33:19 EDT from kwat.chat permalink
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