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Comment by TheWindUpPirate | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what the root cause is? They've just tweeted that the outage is also affecting call centres and their ability to receive email. [0]

I'm glad their stuff is designed with zero connectivity in mind. Just slightly irked that my history isn't cached on my phone.

[0] - https://twitter.com/GarminUK/status/1286279863217926144

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I struggle to imagine what non-segregated resource would be so central as to affect their customer-facing app platform, internal email (or maybe mail gateways), and call center.

Maybe DNS got hosed? I mean pretty impressive ransomware if it swept across the company that far and wide, crossing so many network boundaries and resource types so quickly.

Maybe accounts/control being held for ransom instead of storage encryption (what I usually think of as ransomware).

When I worked there, the entire internet for the campus went down. It took down the Garmin website and everything else Garmin. The culprit? Everyone was streaming music and/or videos. Everything shared the same internet pipe and streaming music starved out essential business functions.

The next day all streaming services were blocked, and it was made clear we were being monitored for excess internet usage. Thus began the great brain drain to Apple, Amazon, and Samsung.

Well that, and the fact that they took away the nice toilet paper and replaced it with one—ply right around the same time.

One-ply toiler paper is where I draw the line. Nice toilet paper is a basic human right.

Also, WHAT company of this size would try to save on toilet paper. Are you kidding me?

Ransomware.

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