For some reason, Twitter (never calling it X) had trouble remaining online Monday. Elon Musk took to his unstable service to announce that he was under a DDoS attack. A DDoS attack, which he never proved. We’ve heard this excuse before. A couple of times. It was a reason that gave me the ‘never trust Elon’ feeling. However, it didn’t take long for some online publications to call BS on his claim.
Elon said in a post that it had been brought down by a “massive cyberattack” executed by “a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” Later that day, in an interview with Fox News, First Lady Musk said the attack involved “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”
However, in a report from Wired, security researchers offered a very different view on the attack. Security experts interviewed by Wired did little to support the First Lady. Theysaid there was little evidence that Ukrainian IP addresses played a significant role in the DDoS attack. One researcher even said the country wasn’t even in the top 20 countries of origin involved.
Why we should never trust Elon
“X origin servers, which respond to web requests, weren’t properly secured behind the company’s Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible,” Wired writes. “As a result, attackers could target them directly. X has since secured the servers.”
One of the reason I never believe his claims is because he’s a known liar. He cultivated a concept that he is some technological genius, when he isn’t. He did not create any of the companies he owns, or were part of. All Musk has done was invest and made himself CEO. PayPal, Tesla, Space X, and Twitter were all created by other people.
Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, who knows how to code and created Facebook, Musk has always been an impostor. Since he, solely, runs Twitter, he did to the company what he’s doing to the federal government and it’s having the same effect. He fired a bunch of engineers and software people, only to hire them back when it broke.
He claimed the same attacks happened when he tried to interview Trump before the election last year. Before that, glitches on the app botched a presidential run by Governor Ron De Santis. Twitter isn’t the pinnacle of technology, think of it as the Microsoft of social media platforms. Maybe better yet, Google Plus.