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    Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016

    gov.uk is down - the whole thing, as far as I can tell (so all online government services)pic.twitter.com/OFgSyRgl3X

    7:34 AM - 26 Oct 2016
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      2. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        Jon Stone Retweeted GOV UK

        confirmedhttps://twitter.com/GOVUK/status/791286309994332161 …

        Jon Stone added,

        GOV UKVerified account @GOVUK
        GOV.UK is intermittently unavailable for some users. We hope to be fully back online soon.
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      2. Graeme Spence‏ @trekkie101 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        it’s physically up, it’s your DNS server that’s returning a wrong NXDOMAIN error. Dyn (one of the biggest) was attached last wk

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @trekkie101

        that’s not the line the Cabinet Office is takingpic.twitter.com/NuuNUTqsS6

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Graeme Spence‏ @trekkie101 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        if it wasn’t a ‘wrong’ NXDOMAIN, then someone pushed an empty entry! A little embarrassing for IT ;)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @trekkie101

        yeah someone in my mentions say they essentially filled a box in wrong, as I understand it

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      6. Graeme Spence‏ @trekkie101 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        wonder if they were strengthening after this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Dyn_cyberattack … - you don’t really touch that box once it’s set.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @trekkie101

        ah that’s an interesting suggestion actually yeah weird to see why it would be changed

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      8. Graeme Spence‏ @trekkie101 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html … https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/10/uk_admitting_of.html … Two interesting links. All speculation though. Could we be at cyber war.

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      2. Graeme‏ @Two_Left_Tweet 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @joncstone

        Working on this endpic.twitter.com/txVN6FR2Lw

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Jon Stone‏Verified account @joncstone 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @Two_Left_Tweet

        looks like down for some people and not others

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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    1. Martin McDonald‏ @marty_mcd 26 Oct 2016
      Replying to @joncstone

      surprisingly, HMRC seems unaffected...

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    2. Nick Kocharhook‏ @k9 26 Oct 2016
      Replying to @joncstone

      WFM… Temporary outage?

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    3. Matthew Shannon‏ @TheHarmacist 26 Oct 2016
      Replying to @joncstone

      .@joncstone I'm worried this might be one of the things the submarines check before they let off the nukes.

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    4. paul moody‏ @swordofreason 26 Oct 2016
      Replying to @joncstone

      yaas, the revolution has begun. Or something.

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    5. DotasScandalDotOrg‏ @dotasscandal 26 Oct 2016
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      DotasScandalDotOrg Retweeted DotasScandalDotOrg

      I guess 90% of IT contractors must have walked out over #UnfairIR35, same as UKHOhttps://twitter.com/dotasscandal/status/788709686405173248 …

      DotasScandalDotOrg added,

      DotasScandalDotOrg @dotasscandal
      Too late...see massive #contractor walkout at UKHO over #UnfairIR35: 90% left! Staggeringly shortsighted of HMG. https://twitter.com/poetrybag/status/788641829285748736 …
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    6. Emma Lui‏ @EmmaSHLui 26 Oct 2016
      Replying to @joncstone

      Same for me- just ran a website watcher check and all my gov.uk links show up as "Error: page or file not found"!

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