The expert – about the glitch in social networks: “Sometimes we want to believe in a conspiracy theory.” EXCLUSIVE
The explanation for this massive social failure must be found in something simple, not in conspiracy theory. This point of view on the air of the TV channel “MIR 24” was expressed by the expert on cybersecurity Pavel Myasoedov.
“We sometimes subconsciously want to believe in a conspiracy theory – it gives mysticism and drama to our life, but in this case it is worth trying to explain this kind of thing or look for an explanation for them in something simple,” he said.
Pavel Myasoedov suggested that anonymous reports about the beginning of a mass failure a few minutes before its start, most likely, were made by some engineer who saw “that the configuration is starting to crumble.”
“If it were in five hours, it would most likely be something more serious. But in 15 minutes, some engineer already saw that a certain configuration was pouring in (Facebook is a big company), and to make his page, blog or himself popular, or just to make life dramatic, he made this kind of stuffing, ”said the expert …
The expert – about the glitch in social networks: “Sometimes we want to believe in a conspiracy theory.” EXCLUSIVE
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He noted that, most likely, the failure was partly a mistake not only of intermediate links of the Internet, but also a miscalculation of Facebook's own engineers.
“As we already heard from the statement of Mark Zuckerberg himself or the company itself, they had to reconfigure the DNS system, servers, and after that this failure began. It turns out that the new configuration has not been properly tested, ”Myasoedov commented.
A large-scale failure in social networks and on popular portals occurred on the evening of October 4. Users could not get access to many resources for several hours.
