Massive global outage and hacking fears..
Lots of sites and brands are down this morning.
What will Congress do without Grindr!!?
In the last few minutes Cloudflare has confirmed it is aware of a major issue affecting its Global Network, which is causing outages on platforms like X, ChatGPT.. and ironically, Downdetector.
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According to the latest Cloudflare update
“During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect.”
But what is WARP? Faster than light travel for starships?
Sadly not, Cloudflare’s WARP is seemingly a tool to secure internet connections by encrypting all traffic from a user’s device. It is mainly used as a privacy tool for consumers and corporate customers. Unlike a VPN, warp does not hide your IP address, it merely encrypts your traffic.
