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tinfoil hat: NSA installed data monitoring tools on all Google traffic during those 2 minutes...

Or a lot of HNers mapped all IPv4 addresses at once with a new tool.

or removed them...

(before oversight hits)

If that's true, then we should be seeing similar outages affecting other services too.

Apple is doing some "planned maintenance" today at 6pm PDT.

dons tinfoil hat

And then there's the NYTimes outage from a few days ago.