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yonder

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8. I'm bugged by Century Link's apparent lack of transparency with regard to this.
Fri Dec 28, 2018, 03:03 PM
Dec 2018

Yesterday, they were never upfront about what was happening other than a "major path" problem announcement some 12 hours after it began. Instead, they continued with their corpo-speak "customers interests....blah, blah, blah", dropped/blocked service inquiries, etc. and even had the nads to air some pre-scheduled adverts declaring how secure their system and customers were - right in the middle of the mess.

Today, with what looks like a fix, we still don't know. Maybe it's still too early for them to determine exactly what happened, or come up with a plausible alternative explanation. Was it a hack? Was it a state coordinated communication attack or dry run for one? Is the DoD requesting to keep this under wraps? Is this a hint of what a major infrastructure attack or military coup might look like? What if other companies like Comcast, etc. were sucked into this at the same time? Why is this not getting more traction from the media?

I'm not running around with a tin-foil hat, waving my arms at a pink sky just yet but I do have the thought that this is perhaps bigger than we're allowing for.

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