Tim Pool Daily News Internet GOES DOWN, CloudFlare CRASHES After "Unusual Traffic," Cyber Attack Feared | Tim Pool
Nov 18, 2025
A massive outage at Cloudflare disrupts major websites, raising alarms about potential cyber attacks. Tim discusses the implications of 'unusual traffic' and the impact across services like Coinbase and Spotify. He delves into the risks of concentrating too much internet infrastructure within a few providers. Speculation on motives behind such disruptions ranges from cryptocurrency heists to political sabotage. The conversation also touches on recent right-wing infighting and its implications ahead of the midterms.
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Morning Discovery Of Widespread Outages
- Tim Pool describes waking to widespread outages with his staff unable to access X and other sites.
- He uses the moment to narrate how many known sites were offline and Cloudflare was implementing fixes.
Major Internet Outage Likely Deliberate
- Cloudflare reported "unusual traffic" then large parts of the internet went down, suggesting coordinated disruption.
- Tim Pool reasons this pattern resembles a deliberate distributed denial-of-service attack rather than mere accident.
Cloud Concentration Creates Fragility
- Concentration of infrastructure into a few cloud providers creates a single point of systemic failure.
- Checkpoint's expert notes outages at AWS, Azure, Cloudflare follow the same fragile dependency pattern.