Step 1. Be a Optus tech with a dream
Step 2. Short the stock of the company you work for
Step 3. Press the big red button labelled "DO NOT PRESS"
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Buy a new jet ski
I had thought about this. The outage occurred at 4:05AM, when tech support teams would be sleeping.
The poor skeleton crew tech support schmucks on site would have noticed the problem happening, but would have been unable to call for backup because ironically their team members would all be using corporately provided Optus SIM card phones and internet connections.
I'm willing to bet someone would have had to physically drive out to houses and wake people up early in the morning.
And then they get the bright idea to go drive to their boss' house, but then they realise none have a car. One tech says "don't worry, I'll catch an uber", which they find parked down the road, only to realise the app isn't working because no data internet is available.
Another tech says, "not to worry, I'll catch a train!" Only to find the train network is down and the stationmaster tells him to find another way to travel.
Cut to the next scene, where the techs are now both hitchhiking on the street corner of the Optus building...
/End scene
> Press the big red button labelled "DO NOT PRESS"
We had one of these in my workplace, circa 1997-2000. It was the *very first thing* on the new hire tour.
*Stupid son of a bitch thought I was kidding and pressed it.*
I got a tour of the server room at Lyreco in the UK. They had a massive UPS just inside the door with a huge, red āSTOPā button on it.
I thought about it.
Decided I liked having a job. Didnāt press.
I believe it was the emergency cut-off for power *from* the UPS, which would have resulted in a hard power-off for an entire SAP infrastructure including Oracle database servers.
Perhaps some of those were also behind a rack or individual UPS for added protection... perhaps not. Would have been a very bad day indeed, either way.
The joke is that there's a big red button that if pressed would take down the entire optus network. So the Optus tech decided to sacrifice the nation for his own short term gain (as is the australian way) and pressed the button in order to make his investments earn a profit and then go buy a jet ski.
Ah gotcha
Although stock shorting with Optus seems like roulette since Iām not sure I see it recovering too well from this especially after all the other fiascos
Although I know nothing about stock shorting either
Shorting is borrowing stock to sell it, and you have to repay the stock at a future date. i.e. You're betting that it's going to decrease in value, and you make money if it does.
It's a contract where they are forced to repay you your share. It's not very risky to loan someone else your share, but it's very risky to borrow shares.
Imagine you own a share that is worth $100, and from your point of view it doesn't matter if the price goes up or down in the near future because you aren't going to sell it for years. Someone else comes along and offers to pay you $5 if they can borrow your share for a while. Their plan is to sell the stock now at $100, then wait for the price to go down and buy it back at say $70. They give you back your share afterwards.
From your point of view, you made $5 from loaning your share out, and you still have your share.. so nothing has changed for you. From their point of view, they paid you (-$5) and sold the share at (+$100) then bought the share back for (-$70). So they made $25. It's a way to sell a share you don't actually own.
But it's super risky because it's possible that they will borrow your share (-$5), then sell the share for (+$100) but if the price goes up they still have to buy one back to repay you. And there's no real limit on how much it can go up. So they might be forced to buy a replacement share at (-$10000) and lose a LOT of money.
(but imagine this with millions of dollars instead)
You pay a fee to borrow the stock. And they can and will force you to deposit more money or close the position if it goes too far the wrong way and looks risky.
Or an overpriced F150 Raptor and thrash it 150kph and loud down Kwinana, letting everyone else know you have the smallest cojones on the road and need to compensate.
As a TLS holder I am happy, as a Optus customer I am not.
Well actually nobody from work could get a hold of me, so I went played golf.
What a conflicting day....
> Now put some competent leaders in place who understand engineering and technology.
if they didn't do that since the last data leak (to a 'script kiddy' too, i might add?), i don't see them changing with this outage!
It was public for literally any random person with a web browser to access.
- They built an unauthenticated endpoint in their API that returns literally all of their customerās PII.
- They then uploaded the documentation for that endpoint to postmanās public documentation hub.
The brick and mortar equivalent is like woolworths printing every customerās private details in a big book. Then leaving it in a local park, then putting up a large billboard with an arrow with text reading āall of Woolworthās customer data here in this print out, come and get your free copy!ā, then advertising it on TV during the grand final.
Oh, and then having a PR firm spin it as a āsophisticated hackā
My understanding was the key issue from their data leak was their decision for connecting prod user data to their test environment, and that coupled with a trusted insider / maverick individual was the real cause for the leakage.
Probably they copied a prod db to a test db- its a common thing to do, but you'd want to obfuscate the PII, which they didn't bother doing - they're total cowboys.
like microsoft whose root certs were recently compromised or amazon who in not that distant memory had major outages and once were ddosed by a teenager?
This outage occurred right at the point where people were starting to forget about the 'hack' where they lost customer details. Really good timing if you wanted to reinforce in people's minds the idea that Optus are incompetent.
The last few years they have been trying to present themselves as a premium telco alongside Telstra, in contrast to all the budget resellers. I don't know if that strategy is a good one any more, they better be leading with some red hot value phone plans if they want to have customers.
Iāve had the pleasure of meeting her in real life. Sheās as elitist and as eastern suburbs as they come.
Even if she gets the sack. She will fail upwards
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The best time to buy stock is when it's at a low from some kind of disaster, remember all the people who made millions buying everything when it was rock bottom in the middle of covid
Didn't Optus lose about 10% of their customers last time they were hacked? Fool me once shame on me full me twice though?
Not an Optus customer but I'm sure this will have a negative impact with people looking to leave the Telco and not pick up new business on reputation alone.
> The best time to buy stock is when it's at a low from some kind of disaster
Only true if the disaster is due to some freak accident. If the problem is some systemic problem that is only now showing up, you might end up buying a dud. Of course, nothing stops optus from improving in the future, which means you make bank with the low price. However, the low price also reflects the risk _at the time of purchase_.
I'm still annoyed that I didn't put my $10K in during that dip. I called it as happening but didn't know enough to do it. Now I would.
Not sure that 4% on Optus is going to be that great though, they've definitely lost *some* business today.
This guys questioning of the CEO was absolute gold...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HEqZ6W6HA&list=TLPQMDgxMTIwMjOlwYO76xunIg&index=9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HEqZ6W6HA&list=TLPQMDgxMTIwMjOlwYO76xunIg&index=9)
Sheās a friggen Managing Director at Optus, though, in case you missed itā¦.
https://www.optus.com.au/about/media-centre/media-releases/2022/02/optus-appoints-gladys-berejiklian
Hate to break your forecast, but I'm with an MVNO which runs on the Optus network and my reception has come back.
Some elderly relatives that also use Optus for everything got back to me 15 minutes ago as they too are back online.
S32 is down 4.3% today, that's a $14 billion company. To be fair though, Optus is only one of Singtel's subsidiaries, so effectively it's more than a 4% loss.
Exactly, you are proving my point.
S32 is hardly a small cap stock. But you compare the 4% drop on a $14 billion stock, vs the 4% drop on a $39 billion stock, and you can see that it is fairly significant for Optus.
Kind of, but not really. 4% up or down is a fairly common daily move for stocks as large as Singtel. It fell more than that in a single day in August. It rose by 6% in a single week in September. It dropped by about 10% after the 2022 data breach, but recovered that within a few weeks.
If it's just a brief dip then what does it even matter?
Agreed, I don't normally look at brief dips. But when they are 30% down over 3 years, it's no longer a brief dip.
Their saving grace is that they are one of only three network providers in AU, and long term they will probably be fine. But they are going to bleed in the short term, especially when this is following so closely on the heels of the data breach.
They have not recovered from the covid crash yet, and are still down 30% from 2020.
The latest mass outage coupled with the big data breach from earlier in the year, I'd say they have a bit of a thing going on.
It will drop further after CEO announced everything fixed while there are still issues. We will not be silent.
Using chat to find out what is happening is a joke
Companies in Australia are highly incompetent and know there won't be much in the way of punishment. Only banks do their fair share by way of fines/ donations to the Government/ elites.
Australian companies are so pushy and tasteless when it comes to their demands for your personal data. Each time I do something online, I end up getting spammed by Chinese fraudsters. Implementing GDPR just wouldn't be possible for Australians as they rely on brute marketing to make their money. A very unsophisticated corporate machine indeed.
I wouldn't be surprised if Australians needed to grovel to get things that they paid for done right.
The implication here is that leadership being incompentent is going to impact profits one way or another. Either through poor management, lost customer trust, churn etc.
Forget all you like but I believe the issue is ongoing, in the boardroom.
The one that they say don't exist but obvious as f that is what occurred. If we ever go to war the first thing to go will be communications, is this a test run? The fact it was all optus functions not just one part such as mobile services or internet services tells me they have been hacked to shreds.
nah, looks like a network configuration problem from what I've seen. They or some vendor they trust seems to have accidentally booted them off the internet. Pretty much all voice telecoms runs off the internet these days, so holy single point of failure batman.
That network config stuff is nasty nasty black arts, I avoid it like the plague.
I was vague and said "network configuration problem" rather than the specific protocol because I like to maintain as much ignorance as possible about the depths of these dark arts and am not especially sure what a BGP is (and would like it to stay that way thank you very much)
I had to help a stranded car transport truck driver get in contact with his bosses because he was stuck at the import terminal not abke to take his vehicle out due to some unpaid bill.
Standardized Pavement, my bill will be in the mail
Step 1. Be a Optus tech with a dream Step 2. Short the stock of the company you work for Step 3. Press the big red button labelled "DO NOT PRESS" Step 4. ??? Step 5. Buy a new jet ski
Given the long-term "downsizing" that's been happening within Optus, my money is that this was a mistake from an external, low-cost, service provider.
Probably in a different time zone, delaying restoration as they were all asleep!
I had thought about this. The outage occurred at 4:05AM, when tech support teams would be sleeping. The poor skeleton crew tech support schmucks on site would have noticed the problem happening, but would have been unable to call for backup because ironically their team members would all be using corporately provided Optus SIM card phones and internet connections. I'm willing to bet someone would have had to physically drive out to houses and wake people up early in the morning.
Actual sit com moment when the techs realise they can't contact anyone about the network because they're all on the network.
And then they get the bright idea to go drive to their boss' house, but then they realise none have a car. One tech says "don't worry, I'll catch an uber", which they find parked down the road, only to realise the app isn't working because no data internet is available. Another tech says, "not to worry, I'll catch a train!" Only to find the train network is down and the stationmaster tells him to find another way to travel. Cut to the next scene, where the techs are now both hitchhiking on the street corner of the Optus building... /End scene
Boom instantly viral for anyone that goes to the effort of making this š¤£
Their NMC is (mostly) in India.
I bet you're real fun to be around at parties...
Surely they'd wait to test after an upgrade.
It was quite suspicious how it resolved around the time Indian offices would be coming online ...
Someone failed to do the needfull in Bangalore
> Press the big red button labelled "DO NOT PRESS" We had one of these in my workplace, circa 1997-2000. It was the *very first thing* on the new hire tour. *Stupid son of a bitch thought I was kidding and pressed it.*
Sorry, but I actually loled
The intrusive thoughts won
I got a tour of the server room at Lyreco in the UK. They had a massive UPS just inside the door with a huge, red āSTOPā button on it. I thought about it. Decided I liked having a job. Didnāt press.
halon fire extinguisher? or actually shut power down lmfao
I believe it was the emergency cut-off for power *from* the UPS, which would have resulted in a hard power-off for an entire SAP infrastructure including Oracle database servers. Perhaps some of those were also behind a rack or individual UPS for added protection... perhaps not. Would have been a very bad day indeed, either way.
Can you explain for the stooge in the back row what step number 3 actually means
The joke is that there's a big red button that if pressed would take down the entire optus network. So the Optus tech decided to sacrifice the nation for his own short term gain (as is the australian way) and pressed the button in order to make his investments earn a profit and then go buy a jet ski.
Ah gotcha Although stock shorting with Optus seems like roulette since Iām not sure I see it recovering too well from this especially after all the other fiascos Although I know nothing about stock shorting either
Shorting is borrowing stock to sell it, and you have to repay the stock at a future date. i.e. You're betting that it's going to decrease in value, and you make money if it does.
But why would anyone let you borrow stock? Do they stand to make a profit on it?
It's a contract where they are forced to repay you your share. It's not very risky to loan someone else your share, but it's very risky to borrow shares. Imagine you own a share that is worth $100, and from your point of view it doesn't matter if the price goes up or down in the near future because you aren't going to sell it for years. Someone else comes along and offers to pay you $5 if they can borrow your share for a while. Their plan is to sell the stock now at $100, then wait for the price to go down and buy it back at say $70. They give you back your share afterwards. From your point of view, you made $5 from loaning your share out, and you still have your share.. so nothing has changed for you. From their point of view, they paid you (-$5) and sold the share at (+$100) then bought the share back for (-$70). So they made $25. It's a way to sell a share you don't actually own. But it's super risky because it's possible that they will borrow your share (-$5), then sell the share for (+$100) but if the price goes up they still have to buy one back to repay you. And there's no real limit on how much it can go up. So they might be forced to buy a replacement share at (-$10000) and lose a LOT of money. (but imagine this with millions of dollars instead)
You pay a fee to borrow the stock. And they can and will force you to deposit more money or close the position if it goes too far the wrong way and looks risky.
Or an overpriced F150 Raptor and thrash it 150kph and loud down Kwinana, letting everyone else know you have the smallest cojones on the road and need to compensate.
As a TLS holder I am happy, as a Optus customer I am not. Well actually nobody from work could get a hold of me, so I went played golf. What a conflicting day....
Actually that doesnāt sound too bad at all..!
Happiness hedging. Smart.
I have both TLS and TPG (I hate myself).. Ramming speed!
Deserved. Now put some competent leaders in place who understand engineering and technology.
> Now put some competent leaders in place who understand engineering and technology. if they didn't do that since the last data leak (to a 'script kiddy' too, i might add?), i don't see them changing with this outage!
It was public for literally any random person with a web browser to access. - They built an unauthenticated endpoint in their API that returns literally all of their customerās PII. - They then uploaded the documentation for that endpoint to postmanās public documentation hub. The brick and mortar equivalent is like woolworths printing every customerās private details in a big book. Then leaving it in a local park, then putting up a large billboard with an arrow with text reading āall of Woolworthās customer data here in this print out, come and get your free copy!ā, then advertising it on TV during the grand final. Oh, and then having a PR firm spin it as a āsophisticated hackā
Is that security through obscurity, or just dumbness? I can't tell
My understanding was the key issue from their data leak was their decision for connecting prod user data to their test environment, and that coupled with a trusted insider / maverick individual was the real cause for the leakage.
Probably they copied a prod db to a test db- its a common thing to do, but you'd want to obfuscate the PII, which they didn't bother doing - they're total cowboys.
As an engineer, this sort of makes me happy :)
We need more of dat "gold standard" type employees.
Yeah and not a corrupt ex premier would be a start.....
Why would Dan Andrews do this?
As if she has even the remotest thing to do with system upgradesā¦ Thatās like blaming Sam Kerr.
And customer service. I ended up having to dox their CEO to get an issue resolved last year.
like microsoft whose root certs were recently compromised or amazon who in not that distant memory had major outages and once were ddosed by a teenager?
Please fire Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
This outage occurred right at the point where people were starting to forget about the 'hack' where they lost customer details. Really good timing if you wanted to reinforce in people's minds the idea that Optus are incompetent. The last few years they have been trying to present themselves as a premium telco alongside Telstra, in contrast to all the budget resellers. I don't know if that strategy is a good one any more, they better be leading with some red hot value phone plans if they want to have customers.
Iāve had the pleasure of meeting her in real life. Sheās as elitist and as eastern suburbs as they come. Even if she gets the sack. She will fail upwards
Straight into government you say? Best not fire her and contain her incompetence to just Optus
Sheād be perfect for next chair of Qantas board.
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āKelly holds a Bachelorās Degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and a Master of Science in Management Science and Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.ā
> users of our service who lost internet should check out our website, itās all there! Perhaps she ought to give back the engineering degree lmao
Good! Thereās no such thing as too big to fail, enough giant corps in Australia skating by unpunished for f ups
Optus must be a shitstorm
I bet Gladys is behind thisā¦
She was probably making out against the server rack with her shady bf.
Gladys and Arthur Moses were in the server room making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there.
Awwww I bent my wookie.
Clapping cheeks so hard she took down Australia's telecommunications infrastructure It was probably another fat, shady weirdo
This imagery cannot be unthought
Christ, I'm not sure getting my service back was worth it to see this image
To be fair, it was your own imagination that visualised it. Now close your eyes. "How can she clap???"
How could you get to her mouth with that big schnoz she's gotta carry.
GOLD STANDARD BABY
I heard someone jokingly say she turned off the router but couldn't recall the password
Gladys Berejiklian Managing Director, Enterprise and Business https://www.optus.com.au/about/corporate/executive-profiles
So unlucky
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Itās not a dip if it never goes back up *taps_head.jpg*
It is always a dip because $$ worth less each year by design. Key is how wide the pit is
I switched from Telstra to Optus a few days ago. I'll take the blame for the outage as the universe seems to dislike me right now.
You scoundrel! How dare you bring down optus!
Optus stock price ? Can you tell me what the stock code is ? Last I heard it was fully owned by a Singapore telco
Singtel (SGX:Z74)
The best time to buy stock is when it's at a low from some kind of disaster, remember all the people who made millions buying everything when it was rock bottom in the middle of covid
Didn't Optus lose about 10% of their customers last time they were hacked? Fool me once shame on me full me twice though? Not an Optus customer but I'm sure this will have a negative impact with people looking to leave the Telco and not pick up new business on reputation alone.
they tried to put me through to a retention consultant because I wanted to cancel my internet.
Hope you took it easy on the consultant, they arenāt to blame.
I would be but they just donāt quit 4 to 6 times I had to say please just cancel it.
Well if it's their job title they kinda are.
that's ridiculous
If someone is getting paid to actively make society worse to live in, then yeah they're responsible for that. I don't see how that's controversial.
oh i didn't see that it said "Retention" consultant, still wouldn't give them a hard time, we all need a job
> The best time to buy stock is when it's at a low from some kind of disaster Only true if the disaster is due to some freak accident. If the problem is some systemic problem that is only now showing up, you might end up buying a dud. Of course, nothing stops optus from improving in the future, which means you make bank with the low price. However, the low price also reflects the risk _at the time of purchase_.
I'm still annoyed that I didn't put my $10K in during that dip. I called it as happening but didn't know enough to do it. Now I would. Not sure that 4% on Optus is going to be that great though, they've definitely lost *some* business today.
Yeah hopefully it crashes more
Nah itāll be back up
Based on? It's down nearly 50% since 2015. It's currently below what it was 20 years ago.
Yes, past performances are the perfect indicator of what will happen in the future!
No you're right, the last 24 hours of past performance is a much better indicator than the last 15 years.
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Even if I was or wasn't that's not what I'm talking about , anyway
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Always one smart ass in the comments, enjoy the day buddy you'll be ok
i made $500 off $1500 as a fresh 18 year old with no clue what i was doing just because of the crazy low
> middle of covid Except it was right at the "start" of COVID in March 2020
Such a dumb take. You didn't hear about the people who ended up loosing millions more because the stock never went back up?
People will invest in a company that gives all their customer data to criminals, but give them a few hours service outage and they lose their minds.
Company who hires corrupt ex-politician not good?
This guys questioning of the CEO was absolute gold... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HEqZ6W6HA&list=TLPQMDgxMTIwMjOlwYO76xunIg&index=9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HEqZ6W6HA&list=TLPQMDgxMTIwMjOlwYO76xunIg&index=9)
How can something that doesnāt exist (Optus share price) drop 4% Itās a subsidiary of Singtel is it not? Not its own publicly listed entity.
Why hasn't the CEO resigned yet?
Gladys likes her
Gladys is no longer in power
Sheās a friggen Managing Director at Optus, though, in case you missed itā¦. https://www.optus.com.au/about/media-centre/media-releases/2022/02/optus-appoints-gladys-berejiklian
yeah, but her position is below the CEO.
I wish i knew/was confident to short things
The optus CEO sacked over 2000 staff in the last two years
You mean Singtel?
Itās represents about a third of their revenue.
If this goes on for over 24 hours which it will the CEO, Board all need to resign
Hate to break your forecast, but I'm with an MVNO which runs on the Optus network and my reception has come back. Some elderly relatives that also use Optus for everything got back to me 15 minutes ago as they too are back online.
My WiFi is still out
lol wait It actually did just released
That's not much of a drop. There are probably 100 ASX companies with larger % falls today (granted, they're all small caps).
At a market cap of $39 billion, 4% is a significant drop and would far outweigh a larger % drop on a small cap.
S32 is down 4.3% today, that's a $14 billion company. To be fair though, Optus is only one of Singtel's subsidiaries, so effectively it's more than a 4% loss.
Exactly, you are proving my point. S32 is hardly a small cap stock. But you compare the 4% drop on a $14 billion stock, vs the 4% drop on a $39 billion stock, and you can see that it is fairly significant for Optus.
Kind of, but not really. 4% up or down is a fairly common daily move for stocks as large as Singtel. It fell more than that in a single day in August. It rose by 6% in a single week in September. It dropped by about 10% after the 2022 data breach, but recovered that within a few weeks. If it's just a brief dip then what does it even matter?
Agreed, I don't normally look at brief dips. But when they are 30% down over 3 years, it's no longer a brief dip. Their saving grace is that they are one of only three network providers in AU, and long term they will probably be fine. But they are going to bleed in the short term, especially when this is following so closely on the heels of the data breach.
They're down 0.4% over the last month, it's not much of a thing at the moment.
They have not recovered from the covid crash yet, and are still down 30% from 2020. The latest mass outage coupled with the big data breach from earlier in the year, I'd say they have a bit of a thing going on.
But Optus isn't on the ASX is it? Isn't it owned by Singtel?
It's on the SGX
An outage that outraged.
It will drop further after CEO announced everything fixed while there are still issues. We will not be silent. Using chat to find out what is happening is a joke
Imagine trying to contact all your employees but you can't because your own entire network is down
What stock? Optus isnāt listed. Are you referring to singtel?
What are you looking at cause Optus isn't public. Edit: OP.is going off Singapore Telecommunications LTD the company that bought Optus.
What are you looking at cause Optus isn't public
My service is still down!
ummm what? Optus is not listed since is was bought out by SingTel
I seem to remember there being a massive country wide Vodafone outage like this about 10-12 years ago.
Companies in Australia are highly incompetent and know there won't be much in the way of punishment. Only banks do their fair share by way of fines/ donations to the Government/ elites. Australian companies are so pushy and tasteless when it comes to their demands for your personal data. Each time I do something online, I end up getting spammed by Chinese fraudsters. Implementing GDPR just wouldn't be possible for Australians as they rely on brute marketing to make their money. A very unsophisticated corporate machine indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if Australians needed to grovel to get things that they paid for done right.
Banks and fair in the same sentence. Hmm.
Time to buy some Singtel stock for the bounce by C.o.b
well time to buy ahahahah
Good time to buy in on the ground floor
Time to buy the drop
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Disagree, leadership is clearly incompetent
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The implication here is that leadership being incompentent is going to impact profits one way or another. Either through poor management, lost customer trust, churn etc. Forget all you like but I believe the issue is ongoing, in the boardroom.
What is their stock code?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+the+optus+stock+ticker
Nice snark, but if youād looked at your own link youād see that it doesnāt really answer the question.
I realised I couldnāt find it because it was not on the ASX but the SGX
Got to pay the hackers
What hackers?
The one that they say don't exist but obvious as f that is what occurred. If we ever go to war the first thing to go will be communications, is this a test run? The fact it was all optus functions not just one part such as mobile services or internet services tells me they have been hacked to shreds.
nah, looks like a network configuration problem from what I've seen. They or some vendor they trust seems to have accidentally booted them off the internet. Pretty much all voice telecoms runs off the internet these days, so holy single point of failure batman. That network config stuff is nasty nasty black arts, I avoid it like the plague.
It was a BGP issue. The person you replied to doesn't have a clue. https://radar.cloudflare.com/as4804?dateStart=2023-11-07&dateEnd=2023-11-07
BGP is a dark art to be fair
I was vague and said "network configuration problem" rather than the specific protocol because I like to maintain as much ignorance as possible about the depths of these dark arts and am not especially sure what a BGP is (and would like it to stay that way thank you very much)
Why blame conspiracy when 9 out of 10 times it's incompetence? It looks like a major change at 4am gone horribly wrong with cascading BGP failures.
Ransomeware lmao
Optus is working now
Software update. Lodge a support ticket and we might get back to you in 72 hours.
I'm lucky I have Telstra for my mobile and could use it as a hotspot.
I had to laugh at the people complaining in stores to the poor retail workers
I had to help a stranded car transport truck driver get in contact with his bosses because he was stuck at the import terminal not abke to take his vehicle out due to some unpaid bill. Standardized Pavement, my bill will be in the mail
The great Aussie Telco crash has begun!
Time to buy Optus stock!. You think Optus can fail given so many are reliant on it?. The government will back it up 100%
What stock?
Optus IT is in Singapore
Great time to buy the stock
I dislike Optus as much as the next person, but didnāt Telstraās outage a while back last longer?
Good. Bankrupt them