Digital Downtime Dilemmas in Facebook & WhatsApp Era

Facebook’s entire network of online properties went offline for around 7 hours on October 5th 2021. But how did this happen and why did it appear Facebook had completely vanished? In this podcast, we take a look at the events leading up to Facebook’s unscheduled downtime. This includes some theories surrounding the event and the surrounding storm instigated by whistle-blower Frances Haugen.

The BootIt Collection covers multi-booting, partitioning, and disk imaging on traditional PC’s using the standard BIOS and  newer PC’s using UEFI.   The collection includes BootIt Bare Metal (BIBM) for standard BIOS systems and BootIt UEFI (BIU) for UEFI system.

Shownotes

In this week’s show we discuss:

• Facebook Whistle-blower Goes Public
• Whistle-blower to Tell Senate Facebook Secrets
• Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram Go Offline
  • Conspiracy Theories and Mistruths
• Reasons Online Gamers Should Use a VPN
• Can Games Consoles Use a VPN?

Christian Cawley and Ben Stegner host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter as@thegadgetmonkey and@stegnersaurus with your suggestions for future topics.

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