10. More Internet Shut Downs
It was a dark day for the Internet in October when a number of sites including Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, Paypal, Reddit and Spotify were knocked off-line thanks to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack on Dyn, a News Hampshire based company that hosts a range of popular platforms (ironically enough, the massive hijack occurred on the same day Black Mirror was available for streaming on Netflix). The hackers successfully shut down your plans to ‘Netflix and Chill’ by flooding servers with fake requests for information, and blocking the real ones. According to industry insiders, it’s unclear who orchestrated the attack and since they’ve had all this time to get their hacking game on 100, they’re most likely planning to shut down larger platforms across the internet, causing widespread disruption. If the internet is dead, how do I Tweet about Netflix being down?
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