They call it fat fingering, the art of accidentally hitting the wrong key, or tapping the wrong spot on a screen by mistake (or because your hands are too big). This is supposedly what lead to half the internet crashing on Friday during TubeBuddy's first-ever Feedback Friday where Discord, plus several other popular websites, went down because an employee accidentally misconfigured a router that sent a ton of traffic to a router in Atlanta causing it to be overwhelmed and crashing.
While the error was a mistake and a minimal issue beyond leaving several websites offline for about 30 minutes, it just goes to show how easy it is for a single person to bring down the Internet, even by mistake. By comparison, the Twitter hack that happened a few days before, while not a mistake, was also the doing of a single person. Twitter hasn't been completely forthcoming on what exactly happened. So far the 2 theories of what might have happened are that either an employee was tricked into giving away sensitive information that gave the hackers access to "God mode" on Twitter. Basically they might have gotten him/her drunk or something like that of that the hackers may have done a sim swap (where they got their hands on the phone from a Twitter employee and switched his sim with another one) and on this sim they found the information to access this "God mode" on Twitter, possibly on purpose, an inside job. Either way, one person was responsible for access to every account on Twitter. That is crazy.
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While the error was a mistake and a minimal issue beyond leaving several websites offline for about 30 minutes, it just goes to show how easy it is for a single person to bring down the Internet, even by mistake. By comparison, the Twitter hack that happened a few days before, while not a mistake, was also the doing of a single person. Twitter hasn't been completely forthcoming on what exactly happened. So far the 2 theories of what might have happened are that either an employee was tricked into giving away sensitive information that gave the hackers access to "God mode" on Twitter. Basically they might have gotten him/her drunk or something like that of that the hackers may have done a sim swap (where they got their hands on the phone from a Twitter employee and switched his sim with another one) and on this sim they found the information to access this "God mode" on Twitter, possibly on purpose, an inside job. Either way, one person was responsible for access to every account on Twitter. That is crazy.
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