[williamsmj]

His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.

Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?

[srid]

This was posted just 3 hours ago:

> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

> Tracing …

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825

[bagels]

If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.

[williamsmj]

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.