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by politelemon 809 days ago
I wonder if that behaviour could be engineered to fake an outage, though I'm unsure as to what end.
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It wouldn't be much of a sabotage since the users would actually be able to access the 'service impacted'. Perhaps it could affect a stock price, but someone who sells a stock (i.e. Meta in this case) because WhatsApp had a 1-5-10-30mins downtime, is doing themselves a disservice and us a favor :)
>and us a favor :)

So there is a plan.