Cloudflare CTO Knecht explains what caused hours-long partial internet blackout
Dane Knecht, CTO of Cloudflare, which caused an hours-long partial internet blackout on Tuesday, said the company's outage wasn't caused by an attack. "In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made," Knecht said. "That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network," he added.