AmrEldib

Netflix also does this. I unsubscribed and many months later subscribed again only to find that all my everything was exactly the same. They never deleted my account.

With regard to Facebook, not exactly the same thing, but in August, I tweeted that I haven't logged in to Facebook in over a month. The next day, I got an email from Facebook asking if I'm having trouble logging in to Facebook. I never gave Facebook my Twitter account. https://twitter.com/AmrEldib/status/899423898139148289

It's good to know things are clam, I was just quoting the article. Not sure where they got that from

> Finland is becoming increasingly worried about what it sees as Russian propaganda against it, including Russian questioning about the legality of its 1917 independence

I don't actually think this will lead to open conflict. My comment at the end was just saying that this is what a world war would probably look like now, and that this back and forth might continue for a while. I'd like to hear from an expert as well, rather than rely on piecing news items together.

I like this version number better :)

Let's try to put this DDoS attack in some context aside from the technical part.

As @scrollaway mentioned, 6 weeks ago, Bruce Schneier posted that several companies told him that they're detecting attempts to probe their networks and find ways to bring it down https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...

Now let's look at the progress of events:

- Hillary Clinton's personal email server was hacked a while ago.

- A lone hacker published a document obtained by hacking the DNC servers. The document includes opposition research on Donald Trump and how Hillary can attack him in the election.

- Wikileaks published emails obtained by hacking the DNC

- US intelligence agencies confirmed that Russia was behind the DNC hack

- It was reported that the CIA is starting a cyber attack against Russian targets. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cy...

- This is happening while the war in Syria and Iraq is growing. The Russians are there to "fight ISIS" but they have deployed an air defense system even though ISIS doesn't have any air force.

- Russia's only air craft carrier is trespassing through UK waters to get to Syria in a show of force that doesn't really add anything to their military capabilities there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/20/russian-fleet-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/19/convoy-of-russ...

- Finland (yes, Finland) is increasingly worried about Russia. They violated their air space, and they're questioning Finland's independence. Finland shares a long boarder with Russia.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-finland-sees-propaganda-att...

- US ships were attacked near Yemen after they're bombed some targets the belong to the rebels. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/us-enters-ye...

- US election is in 3 weeks and Donald Trump is openly in love with Putin. Trump questioned the benefit of NATO which is the basis for Europe stability after the 2nd world war.

Say Hello to World War III, everybody!

Signal's desktop app is in beta https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop-public/

Another (brief) overview is on Hanselminutes episode with Kenton Varda http://www.hanselminutes.com/497/your-personal-cloud-platfor...