A couple months ago YouTube was down for an hour or two, that's the only time I've first hand experienced it. Sometimes you'd get the page to load, but not the video, sometimes you'd just get some Google error page.

The tin foil hat in me always assumes the worse, that it's a result of some unfriendly actors because that seems more likely than a company the size of Google having single points of failure and the ability for widespread outages like this as modern as they are.

My thought exactly, most probably now they'll have a dedicated server for everything.

Why do we always blame Russia? Sure, they're a likely suspect, but I would imagine any team working for a government will also be capable to make it appear as if the attack is coming from anywhere else.

Lots of attacks from China and even North Korea, which would have a lot to gain in the information and tools they'd be able to steal. Reading about Bureau 121 is always fun.

I guess I just don't understand how you could be 100% certain in this day and age but I'm sure they have methods of analyzing traffic that is way over my head to determine the true origin.

Makes sense. Though with a company as big as Google you'd think they'd have a separate server for anything.

I remember this, and they do see to have an outage every year at around the same time, the problem with them is they rely on one server to run multiple things, as seen on a post shared here a couple days ago.

To my knowledge it was made by Finnish residents, hopefully the market administration and moderation had good OPSEC, as I'm sure the authorities will be going through everything with a fine tooth comb.

I also agree, making a marketplace for a certain country is more reasonable as sending packages in your country is a lot easier than posting worldwide.

Ah, I see. Well it looks like they're probably better off than their American or European counterparts, especially if was for Finns by Finns: https://erowid.org/psychoactives/law/countries/law_finland.shtml

But then again I don't know to what extent the place operated but they seem to be more reasonable with it than most places at least.

I second this, Google haven't been reliable at all this year, I'm glad my mail provider is my own as I can sort issues myself (although I've never had any outages).

What's weird is how Google seems to consistently go down at least one time per year. Remember last year when YouTube was down for everyone for like 2~ hours? A week or two ago everyone's YouTube app crashed too.

Ha! Good call. I'll update it now.

I'd clarify that homosexualchan.i2p was spoofed by someone as a joke, and real domain of that board is 2ch.i2p.

To my knowledge they made the marketplace for Finnish residents and it wasn't a huge market like empire was my thought on them being busted will most likely be due to security vulnerabilities, they haven't released much information as of yet as they're still investigating the marketplace (staff and users) and by the looks of it they was using Ekmars Marketplace script, which of what I've heard isn't the best way to go about a matketplace.

Google has had a rocky year. Interestingly enough I think someone showed/proved that one of their status pages wasn't actually reporting anything, and was just a static page displaying no issues throughout. Pretty cocky, and funny. But they may need to re-engineer that if true.

Just hope Bitcoin doesn't turn from "the drug money" to "the porn money"...

I thought Monero was the drug money now, lol.

I'm using LokiNet right now! Just got it integrated within the last hour.

Pretty interesting actually. I like the patterns, not sure about the rest of it though, haha.

this wouldn't be a problem if gmail and microsoft weren't 90% of smtp traffic

The system, known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, handles classified information, up to the secret level, and was shuttered for several hours.

"This has never happened in the middle of a work day," one Pentagon official said. "Updates usually are done on weekends and after hours late at night. This was done on an emergency basis."

The shutdown applied only to computers handling the classified material, and was not imposed on other computers or on phone systems.

"Just tell them it was a virus attack."

Was this a big market? How do you think that they were busted? That's not very common, is it?

All these issues lately have me thinking foul play.

Thank you very much, I am happy that you enjoyed it. :-)

this one is my favorite in the series: https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=v0mwT3DkG4w

That means that a top 20 website (in term of traffic) is only relying on Crypto Currencies; may not be noticeable in terms of market volume, but surely will as adoption.

Just hope Bitcoin doesn't turn from "the drug money" to "the porn money"...

you can't arrange them by penis