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Musk owned social media platform has just experienced its first major worldwide outage, though it seems the service is on the mend.
  • X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
  • The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
  • skozzii@lemmy.caEnglish
    251·
    20 hours ago

    DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I’m sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn’t get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      19 hours ago

      The legal difference would be intent; are you trying to access the website, or are you trying to bog it down? Proving intent can of course be difficult, but OTOH I don’t know how much longer American courts are going to care about silly things like proof

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      124·
      19 hours ago

      No, don’t ever organize like this. We are on the left. We are smart and we are righteous. We do not plan and coordinate and work together in this behavior. This would be sneaky and take social skills and foresight. No we need to gather in downtown Chicago with signs and megaphones. Protest in the streets. Only protest. We’re not animals like trumpets who do this stuff and get away with it and never let up. They don’t know the power of chaining themselves to a fence. They don’t get the rush and mighty feeling when the crowd boos you and tells you to go home and throws things at you. No they don’t understand. They don’t understand we do it for them.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      The most illegal part of a DDoS is usually the hacking / exploiting of thousands or millions of devices to make them all request twitter.com

      I’m not entirely sure what rules it would fall under if you somehow performed a DDoS using entirely your own hardware and Internet connections. It might even be legal, just against the ToS of basically every ISP. I’m pretty sure if Google or ChatGPT take down a site by sending too many crawlers there’s no legal consequences.

    • invertedspear@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      I believe this is one of those things where intent matters, and may vary by location. Willing to bet hitting F5 a few times is safe, even a few hundred times as long as it’s in the realm of just checking if it’s up yet. The moment you have something scripted, you’re at least in the realm of having to explain it to a judge who probably knows fuck all about tech.

    • draughtcyclist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      19 hours ago

      He’s claimed DDoS before right after the purge. I’m pretty sure it was just the platform being crushed by normal traffic. I’m skeptical this isn’t just operating as funded.