Google services hit? or being upgraded?

Looked into this issue as all of a sudden I can't use Google services without problems arising from G-Mail, youtube, and other google services.

Anyone know if Google was planning an expanse of their servers? This seems to be a global issue as people from aregntina report not being able to log into their email accounts.

I can still log into a few accounts but others are facing a huge issue of their accounts suddenly DISSAPPEARING.

I can't synch my contacts at all. I can log in but there are error codes when I want to edit my profile.

Anyone have any other news on this? Is Anon up to something? A new google gate?

Please bring information! that would be nice as this just started happening about 1 hour ago.

a reply to: GiulXainx
Google is fine by me YouTube is screwed up..

a reply to: GiulXainx

Apparently widespread. No virtual learning today. They are down but no details as to why yet. But more then likely a hack after their censorship plans.

It could even be them showing their hands against the fight of censorship. Proving they can do what they want. By punishing parents and limiting children's education.

This wasn't a planned announcement. While outages happen, I doubt this is just an outage, given the outrage of censorship on youtube.

With millions of videos being stripped from their servers. If we are lucky they deleted core operating files too.

a reply to: GiulXainx

google is working also google docs. youtube is running normal right now. outages happens. but its headlines all over the world. crazy times.

a reply to: GiulXainx

Me too! I can't get my Gmail on my computer, but I can access it on my phone.

google is working in Japan

baidu.cn is not a secure place to search ( says Not Secure )

a reply to: BlackArrow

Censorship? you mean the political thing they pulled a while back in 2017? where they vowed to never let it happen again? that censorship?

Is this something that has a paper or article trail? Info?

I could only think maybe Comcast had something to do with this since TV is dying and people are going for Internet over cable now a days.

Has to be something.

I say this because I can log into my gmail account but I can't edit my profile what so ever.

They're probably sweeping anything that questions the MSM/Government agenda.

I got an update notification on which I had to click two choices. If you ignored this, maybe some things will not work properly, as they mentioned. So in short, they have upgraded stuff in order to be more snoopy, sorry more efficient, but you can opt out, which I did on one option and all is fine for me here, UK.
I can also imagine that this new update will cause some unforeseen hick ups, something that happens with everything humans have their hands in. Don't know how we trust them with novel vaccines that go directly into our bodies if they can't even get the internet going properly. [yes I escalated that very quickly on purpose]

originally posted by: Hecate666
I got an update notification on which I had to click two choices. If you ignored this, maybe some things will not work properly, as they mentioned. So in short, they have upgraded stuff in order to be more snoopy, sorry more efficient, but you can opt out, which I did on one option and all is fine for me here, UK.
I can also imagine that this new update will cause some unforeseen hick ups, something that happens with everything humans have their hands in. Don't know how we trust them with novel vaccines that go directly into our bodies if they can't even get the internet going properly. [yes I escalated that very quickly on purpose]

It probably had to do with this: Video calls in Hangouts now use Google Meet. This gives you live captions, screen sharing, and more.

a reply to: GiulXainx

Just an odd thought. Could this have something to do with the Electors that are due to meet?

I have had a hiccup or two this morning, but all is well now.

For the last couple days though, my Google searches get redirected to Yahoo...

It's an "on purpose" exercise to send the general population a "message".

Get used to things like this accelerating 😧

originally posted by: xuenchen
It's an "on purpose" exercise to send the general population a "message".

Get used to things like this accelerating 😧

Lol.. Which source did you use for this Hal Turner, Alex Jones, The Epoch Times?

Things break. Sometimes due to human error, sometimes due to hardware error. Very infrequently due to malicious actors (see recent prison sentence from Webex outage).

originally posted by: opethPA

originally posted by: xuenchen
It's an "on purpose" exercise to send the general population a "message".

Get used to things like this accelerating 😧

Lol.. Which source did you use for this Hal Turner, Alex Jones, The Epoch Times?

Things break. Sometimes due to human error, sometimes due to hardware error. Very infrequently due to malicious actors (see recent prison sentence from Webex outage).

If your really believe that, you're naive. Because Google is SO benevolent right? I don't believe a word that comes from the shills you mentioned, by the way.

originally posted by: opethPA

originally posted by: xuenchen
It's an "on purpose" exercise to send the general population a "message".

Get used to things like this accelerating 😧

Lol.. Which source did you use for this Hal Turner, Alex Jones, The Epoch Times?

Things break. Sometimes due to human error, sometimes due to hardware error. Very infrequently due to malicious actors (see recent prison sentence from Webex outage).

Alphabet Inc. uses so many layers of redundancy on a global scale that the possibility of an outage like what's being described this morning is virtually nil.

Perhaps your world is so fragile that you are compelled to build false narratives to protect it. The reality, however, is that this thing of built to not break.

originally posted by: incoserv

originally posted by: opethPA

originally posted by: xuenchen
It's an "on purpose" exercise to send the general population a "message".

Get used to things like this accelerating 😧

Lol.. Which source did you use for this Hal Turner, Alex Jones, The Epoch Times?

Things break. Sometimes due to human error, sometimes due to hardware error. Very infrequently due to malicious actors (see recent prison sentence from Webex outage).

Alphabet Inc. uses so many layers of redundancy on a global scale that the possibility of an outage like what's being described this morning is virtually nil.

Perhaps your world is so fragile that you are compelled to build false narratives to protect it. The reality, however, is that this thing of built to not break.

I know you watched all the seasons of Mr. Robot and now think you understand how to hax0r the planet or wait is the planet too fragile to handle that? You know, like me.. lulz. =) (snark added to try and make us all laugh, too much vitriol on ATS currently)

The reality of it is there is no so such thing as a network that can't do down regardless of whatever level of HA or redundancy is involved. Problems in the IT or IS space have a way of cascading and if that hasn't been your experience then you obviously haven't worked in that space.

Note , I'm not saying that Google Services going down could not have been the result of some actor (state or individual) but rather much like Occam would say it most likely wasn't. Anyone who automatically jumps to "hax" is new to the tech space and that is from a career that has approached everything with an Infosec first perspective. Give me a single possible attack vector that was used, name the 0 day that was used, give me any proof at all that this wasnt something that causes the majority of outages in life because until then , based on experience, it wasn't nefarious.

In every vertical there is from classified DoD networks to Healthcare to CRM to Entertainment networks , systems or infrastructures have failed.

Moving links to new aggregate switches , yup..that has taken an global entertainment network with 4 layers of DC redundancy and multiple layers of LAN redundancy offline due to cascading failures.

Human error shut the A side leg of a CUBE HA Pair and oops a different level of human error on the B side never finished the config a few months prior so both went down and connectivity to an ITSP failed.

Oh hey, that vendor outside started digging for a new service and cut a line , while that line was down an accident occurred a few blocks away and took down the redundant line. No problem still have a trusty copper line for slow tertiary redundancy.. Nah the LEC had an unrelated yet simultaneous outage and boom a healthcare system loses its external connectivity.

Every single one of those and the hundreds more I could list have occurred in the past 26 years some place. As a matter of fact I could list on one hand the number of outages I have been involved with that were the result of anything nefarious. An example of something nefarious I have dealt with would be the fall out of an ex-Cisco employee running a script against AWS and deleting hundreds of VM's which in turn deleted thousands of user accounts and brought down Webex for thousands of customers. If you wanted to argue semantics though you could say that even this exploit was the result of human error because a deprovisioning process was not followed and that employee still had access to AWS after they were terminated.

Lots of words to say the real world doesn't run the way they show it on TV shows or movies. Redundancy or HA is only as good as the people who engineer and deploy it which means humans are involved which means failures can happen . In a very small % of those cases it's because someone someplace , script kiddie or other, did something bad but the majority of times it is nothing to do with that.