SkyseekerLabs - Internet weather Lillian Skyler Danforth (Lilijoy): Linux and NixOS sysadmin, electronics, and IT work through SkyseekerLabs LLC. Zola 2026-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/atom.xml A new website went up today. The weather is fine. 2026-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/site-launch/ One bad security update blue-screened airports, hospitals and banks. 2024-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 2024-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/crowdstrike/ A compression library nearly shipped a backdoor to half the internet. 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/xz-backdoor/ Facebook routed itself off the internet and locked its own doors. 2021-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 2021-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/facebook-outage/ A botnet of cameras and DVRs knocked out a big DNS provider. 2016-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 2016-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/dyn-ddos/ Eleven lines of JavaScript were unpublished. Builds everywhere fell over. 2016-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 2016-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/left-pad/ Let's Encrypt opened its doors, and HTTPS certificates became free. 2015-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 2015-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/lets-encrypt/ Heartbleed: servers would tell you their secrets if you asked nicely. 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://skyseekerlabs.net/weather/heartbleed/