Cellular Networks Down Specifically in Major US Protest Areas Since ~2:30pm PST (twitter.com) 8 points by marksc 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] marksc 6y ago ↗ There were dozens of livestreams going from each major protest city here: https://woke.net/#streams10 minutes ago there were none.Right now Sacramento, Seattle, Louisville have a handful.But that's it.The DDoS behind the outages can be tracked here: https://digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&lis... [–] marksc 6y ago ↗ Sacramento is down again. All livestreams suddenly cut out.
[–] marksc 6y ago ↗ News articles just started popping up. But none of them have addressed the overlap between outages and protest sites, yet.https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-sprint-att-t-mobile-...https://whdh.com/news/cellular-service-outages-affecting-car...https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-calling-outage/
[–] int_19h 6y ago ↗ Is there any particular evidence linking it to the protests? The heat map looks like it's large urban areas in general, which is not surprising.
[–] verdverm 6y ago ↗ There is another post on the front of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23532560The detective work there says it was a technical glitch as opposed to the conspiracy theories making rounds.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 20.3 ms ] thread10 minutes ago there were none.
Right now Sacramento, Seattle, Louisville have a handful.
But that's it.
The DDoS behind the outages can be tracked here: https://digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&lis...
https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-sprint-att-t-mobile-...
https://whdh.com/news/cellular-service-outages-affecting-car...
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-calling-outage/
The detective work there says it was a technical glitch as opposed to the conspiracy theories making rounds.