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by kristjansson·4y ago·view on hn ↗
Yeah, knocking out their backup IRC (or maybe it was the authentication to the backup IRC?) along with everything else was the key.
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Word-of-mouth I've heard is that the backup IRC server was off-site working fine. The problem was that, because it was only used in emergencies and wasn't hooked into FB's central authentication, a lot of employees simply didn't remember how to log in to it.