Facebook Will Crash again here’s How

The fragility of Facebooks servers and the lightly secured way in which the internet operates should be a red flag to all users who witnessed the Facebook crash this past Monday. During the seven hours in which Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were unresponsive due to “networking issues” according to Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer in a tweet. The Chief Technology Officer at American Military News explained that Facebooks outage did not seem to be caused by “malicious external behavior” but by “…accidental removal of its border gateway protocol BGP) routes”. The officer went on to explain that BGP is “a mechanism by which routers across the planet sharer information with each other about where IP addresses live on the internet. If those are withdrawn, nothing in the world knows where the IP addresses are, therefore, they are effectively ‘gone.” And this could happen again. He further explained that he has personally witnessed “accidents like this one occur multiple times” but stated he has “never seen one last this long, as this sort of problem is usually managed within minutes once the error is understood.” Cloudfare shared a matching assessment according to American Military News “It was as if someone had ‘pulled the cable’ from their data centers all at once and disconnected from the internet.”