What caused the unprecedented Facebook outage? The few clues point to a problem from within
- Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
ShutterstockSuddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a blog post, Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded — with 10.6 million reports from around the world.
The outage...