The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks.
There seems to be an issue with Level 3 at the moment which is causing all sorts of sites to be unreachable for some people but not others. Rackspace (mail, hosting, cloud, etc), Facebook, Hotmail, Github, Digital Ocean, etc.
For those experiencing connectivity issues, try a different ISP/network. For example, I can't connect to any of the above networks via my regular Time Warner cable connection or via my T-Mobile hotspot. But I can connect via my Verizon hotspot.
Et pourtant, que disait Edward Snowden en marge des publications de powerpoints dans le Guardian et quelques autres journaux ? “We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one”. C’est pour nous, chez Reflets, la déclaration la plus importante du whistleblower.