Please do. Backblaze lists x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm as unsupported [1]. Would be great to have it supported to be able to use it with Mattermost and other tools that use min.io for S3.
> and taking down all of Liberia’s Internet—to name a few examples.
This did not happen [1] as was documented here[2], here and here[3]. It spices up the story but in truth, one of local telcos was affected but they accounted for less than a third of Liberia's Internet traffic. The weekend-like Internet traffic seen on that day was because of a national holiday.
Additional source: I lived in Liberia during that time managing the local IXP.
Let's nitpick then. It says: "According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2,820 kilometres (1,750 mi))[3] and aqueducts in the world.".
It could concievably have no pipe longer than 114 km.
Besides operators, individuals can also send OTA settings like APNs, proxies, etc. from a SIM card to SIM cards on another network. To the recipient, the message looks just like the settings you get from local MNOs when you first get connected when roaming in another country.
The perception that the rulers of the country are a bunch of kleptocrats who are likely to be ousted by another set of kleptocrats in short order.
Generally however as long as the artifacts are in hands of a museum they're generally safe no matter how unstable the host government is. The only exception is when certain religious extremists gain power and go on an spree of cultural destruction like in Syria.
I don't know where you get the idea from that corruption in Nigeria affects the safety of their very own artifacts. How is allowing the looters to keep the loot safer?
It is like saying that robbers can keep whatever they stole for as long as they can keep it safe.
Nigeria can choose to do whatever they want with their artifacts.
It's unclear who the rightful owners are. The most specific one would be the current oba, but Nigeria doesn't want them to go back to the oba. So it's kind of complicated. Nigeria seems fine with the loans, maybe because they know that gets them more of the bronzes than if they all went back to the oba. I think the best thing would be to have them back to the oba.
What is unclear/complicated here? This is between 2 countries, Britain and Nigeria. Not between Britain and a person. The oba is Nigerian. These artifacts are part of an entire country's heritage.
But they were private property at the time they were stolen by the British. A government doesn't generally have the right to take objects from citizens simply because they are culturally important.
In modern terms, that would be like somebody from Britain stealing Warhol's "Eight Elvises". Then, the US government demands they be given to the Smithsonian instead of back to the rightful owner.
Yes, this is an example of https://xkcd.com/386/ so I'm creating an account on HN for the first time.
> The attack against Liberia began in October 2016. More than a half-million security cameras around the world tried to connect to a handful of servers used by Lonestar Cell MTN, a local mobile phone operator, and Lonestar’s network was overwhelmed. Internet access for its 1.5 million customers slowed to a crawl, then stopped.
On a more serious note,this is seriously exaggerated. Internet penetration(mostly mobile broadband) was 21% during this period and was split between LoneStarCell, Cellcom, the govt carrier - Libtelco and smaller ISPs. For a population of 4.5m people, 21% meant each mobile operator had less than 500k Internet subscribers.
The post-apocalyptic description of the impact of the DDoS doesn't fit the feeling in that period ( Nov '16). Friends from outside Liberia reached out (ironically over WhatsApp) to ask whether Liberia's Internet was cut off. I checked and saw international media reporting an Internet shutdown which was even more confusing. After emailing a couple of friends at various ISPs and the regulator, I finally got confirmation that LoneStar was under attack. Apparently, they were keeping it a secret. It did not make national news for another 2 months until the formal complaint and lawsuits were filed. Mobile broadband was very patchy back then so perhaps people just assumed it was the usual state of affairs. Now, we have LTE on both operators and an upcoming pre-5G operator.
Source: I'm from and have been based in Liberia (2015-present) and used to manage services at the national Internet exchange during that period.
Please do. Backblaze lists x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm as unsupported [1]. Would be great to have it supported to be able to use it with Mattermost and other tools that use min.io for S3.
[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/s3_compatible_api.html