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		Jamie452 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Sounds like it may have been a cyber attack...

delfinom 3 months ago | [–]

"Unusual spike of traffic" can just be errant misconfiguration that causes traffic spikes just from TCP retries or the like. Jumping to "cyber attack" is eating up Hollywood drama.

In most cases, it's just cloud services eating shit from a bug.

catholiccs 3 months ago | | [–]

PEBKAC error

lm28469 3 months ago | [–]

That's not what I'm hearing from insiders

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