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Why Twitter, Spotify And Other Major Online Services May Be Inaccessible

Discussion in 'In the News' started by Ken Anderson, Oct 21, 2016.

  1. Martin Alonzo

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    WIKILEAKS 14: Major U. S. Internet Outage Takes Down Twitter On Day WikiLeaks 14 Released
    If you go to youtube you can get a link to everything he talks about and more at wikileaks.

     
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    What about malware and iPads? Would this virus affect an iPad or iPhone?
     
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    I'm guessing that wouldn't be as likely, just as they generally don't affect Macs. Malware programs are nearly always written for PCs because they make up the vast majority of the computers on the planet for one thing. I don't have an iPad but, if Apple follows the same protocol there that they do for their Mac OS, in order for something to install, the user has to agree to it and enter in their password, while malware will often install on a Windows program in the background, without the user's knowledge.
     
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    So, I'm pretty safe.
     
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  5. Ken Anderson

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    I think so.
     
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