This article is hearsay trash. It quotes an anonymous source saying "there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying about an attack.
Evidence for DDOS:
- Elon said so
- the event in question very clearly had huge technical issues
Evidence Against DDOS:
- Elon said so
- People who worked at Twitter said it was bullshit
- every other spaces event that was run at the same time was unaffected.
- no other part of the website was impacted in any way whatsoever.
Aren’t these last two an argument FOR a ddos attack? It seems reasonable to assume we’re there a ddos attack at that time it would be against the Elon/Trump stream explicitly.
So no I think it was just a straight up technical failure on their end.
No, we have no idea from The Verge article whether the sources are even qualified to make such statements or if the statements are even true. In fact on the basis of the 99 percent speculative quote we can disregard the source quotes altogether. I'll say this, I work on far less significant software than X and we get DDOSed all the time.
> every other spaces event that was run at the same time was unaffected.
That's not true, I wasn't even able to load my feed during the initial part of the stream.
You baselessly accuse journalists of straight up making things up and then go on to give some anecdotal evidence that conveniently nobody can disprove.
The Verge has no political bias, has a good reputation and thus deserve the benefit of the doubt.
If they were actually neutral, they'd phrase it more like: with technical difficulties.
We know nothing about the sources, and writers are not above making stuff up. I could just as easily spin it on them: there's a 99 percent chance they made up the sources.
The Register has found no evidence of a denial of service attack directed at X. Check Point Software's live cyber threat map does not record unusual levels of activity at the time of writing. NetScout's real-time DDoS map recorded only small attacks on the US.
If a DDoS was indeed the reason for the delayed start of the event, it appears not to have impacted the rest of X's operations – there were plenty of posts commenting on the problems with the Space occupied by the interview. And Musk was tweeting from the very network said to be under attack.
They also threw shade on the numbers:
The interview commenced some 40 minutes after its advertised time. Live audience statistics reported 1.1 to 1.3 million attendees during the portions of the event The Register observed – although during the stream Trump claimed that the event had an audience of 60 million or more, exceeding targets of 25 million.And unfortunately both of these men are known for bullshitting more than anything else and have been now for a long time.
Was Trump a fool to count the people that took one look and changed channels, or a knowledgable and deliberate deceiver?