Massive Attack On X During Musk Trump Interview

[@jcristina]

During an interview (CHAT) between Elon Musk and former president Donald Trump on the social media platform (X), which netted (pardon the pun) just over 1 billion views, was hit with a massive cyberattack. A DDOS attack to be specific which caused the start of the LIVE CHAT to be pushed back 30-40 minutes to all for Musk's cyber security team to mitigate the hackers attack. Today we discuss what happened, was it preventable, and finally look at some real world white-hat security tools which could be used behind the scenes during such DDOS attacks. Q: I would love to hear what you think about this! Or if a bit you're shy, please consider simply adding an emoji in the comment area so I know you watched! Get 1-Month FREE - Use My Starlink Referral jcristina.com/starlink Subscribe, Share, and Like if so inclined! Also, after watching, consider commenting! Can't wait to hear from you in the comments below this video! 1-Hour SpaceX Starlink Setup and Network Design Consultations are available at jcristina.com/product/1-hour-consultation Don't forget to join my Newsletter: jcristina.com/join Super Chats And All Channel Donations Are Warmly Welcome! Thank You! Get a massive discount with PureVPN by visiting jcristina.com/vpn I truly hope you enjoy the video and find value in it! If so, please consider Thumbs Up, Subscribe, and Becoming A Member Of The Channel! For Media & Business Relations Contact 📧 jcristina.com/contact Thank you for supporting the channel! Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. If you would like to get a FREE copy of the Prologue to "How To Create A Digital Fort Knox - Backing Up Your Digital Life" or one of my other FREE books, simply visit jcristina.com/books Consider subscribing to the channel, commenting below, and signing up for my newsletter at jcristina.com/join Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. Highlighted Starlink Hardware I Have Tested In The Past: Ubiquiti amzn.to/3qC554s NetGate amzn.to/3cXiTTv Peplink amzn.to/3OnTsHM UTT Router amzn.to/3nJBLaL TP-link Router amzn.to/3IjkyhP TrendNET Router #1 amzn.to/3nVukx0 TrendNET Router #2 amzn.to/3IGxvm2 Small Battery Backup For Starlink - amzn.to/3ScbcrZ TP-link AC Router - amzn.to/3so07J1 TP-link AX Router - amzn.to/3sf2or8 TP-link Managed Switch: amzn.to/3EQJKZy TP-link Unmanaged Switch: amzn.to/3FVbaih TP-link Outdoor Access Point - amzn.to/4aXXGkS TP-link Indoor Access Point - amzn.to/3rV6Nzk TP-link Extender - amzn.to/448klJi TP-link Control Module (Gigabit) - amzn.to/4aU0oYB For High-Speed Access Points (ex. Starlink or Cable) TP-Link Control Module (Gigabit) - amzn.to/3rVBqEx TP-Link AC1900 - amzn.to/3Q28y6N For Slower Speed Access Points (ex. ATT) TP-Link Control Module (100Mbps) - amzn.to/3Lduaf3 TP-Link AC1200 - amzn.to/3OLhlsK [ Social Media & Additional Connections ] 📦 20% Off Everything jcristina.com - Code YT20 🆓 FREE eBook jcristina.com/ebook 🌒 Dark Moon Teas DarkMoonTeas.com 🎬 KZbin - kzbin.info 🔖 Twitter - twitter.com/JosephCristina 👀 Instagram - instagram.com/JosephCristina 👨‍💼 LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/josephcristina 📖 Facebook - facebook.com/joseph.cristina 📰 Creative Discord Server - community.jcristina.com [ Equipment Used ] 💎 MB ] ASUS - PRIME X370-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard - amzn.to/2rmR9LT 💎 CPU ] AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor - amzn.to/2pSCx4S 💎 COOLER ] Corsair Hydro H115i Extreme Liquid CPU Cooler - amzn.to/2rfEpJ2 💎 GPU ] MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card - amzn.to/2rndQ2o 💎 RAM ] Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 - amzn.to/2qo8PIv 💎 SSD ] Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" SSD - amzn.to/2rmXqH8 💎 DISPLAY ] Dell - UltraSharp 34” Curved Monitor - U3415W - amzn.to/2s6pvTs 💡 Video Lighting - amzn.to/2qrDOnH 🎬 Sony ZV-1 - amzn.to/3rFkfFj 🎬 Canon EOS R & Kit Lens - amzn.to/3lEZIC2 🎙 Tascam Mic w/Recorder - amzn.to/39Xb50C 🎙 Electro-Voice RE-20 - amzn.to/37SoBQt 🎙 Zoom H4n Recorder - amzn.to/3oyF2bh 🎙 dbx 286s Compressor - amzn.to/39SLTYY The above are my Amazon affiliate links - if you purchase anything using the links above, you're supporting this channel at no additional cost to you! I appreciate your support!

[@GoodToGo-g7t]

Someone once said (Patrick Henry???) "I may not agree with WHAT you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." We seem to have gotten away from that belief and that is why we are so divisive as a society. Too bad we never learn and have such short memories.

[@Grant_S_M]

The DDOS claim was an excuse for a poor turnout.Not many want to listen to a weird sociopath and indicted felon.

[@PWingert1966]

@@Grant_S_M Also if there was a large turnout there servers were likely overwhelmed. No actual attack took place most likely. Core routers have tattle tails to clamp traffic when DDOS is detected and clamps the feeds. Don't forget the human panick response of repeatedly hitting refresh generating 20 or thirty requests each multiply my 200,000 and it looks like a DDOS attack.

[@SanityIT]

All other parts of X with streams was working fine. So very strange that the hackers found where to hit so precise it only took out the interview. "Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying about an attack."

[@Good.Glacier]

Excellent and on topic!

[@jcristina]

Thank you kindly!

[@roblebeau7169]

Appreciate the behind the scenes breakdown of what was happening Last night!

[@jcristina]

I honestly just guessing. 😉

[@deoladoctor]

Good stuff. Thanks JChristina. You are awesome

[@jcristina]

Thank you for the kindness.

[@johnkwolf]

Great information

[@jcristina]

🤓

[@chuckchang5021]

...wow...I love your channel...so informative...thank you very much...

[@JB-fh9rb]

Very thoughtful analysis and thank you for this detailed explanation of a DDOS. Well done!

[@drfirechief8958]

All the coders that got fired from Twitter, also knew what was in there and probably where the cracks might have been. There is also a very good chance X is not as robust as it needs to be to handle 30 plus million people in the space all at once. At least not quite yet. If I'm not mistaken, the Tucker/Trump interview overwhelmed X as well. But all the information you scanned over was amazing. The complexity is fascinating. Also, it let me know how disconnected I am from my old messing around days in the '90s. It kinda made my brain hurt💊🧠 But "dammit J I'm a firefighter not a computer coder". 😂 👍

[@dlbrooks2658]

its been a few years since I had to deal with cyber security, thanks for reminding me I am glad i retired

[@jcristina]

😆

[@catherineoconnor4529]

Great info as always.

[@jcristina]

Thanks again!

[@user-hi4ir7ms1f]

Appreciate the info as always. You're the best! BTW, be proud of being a geek! (For those that don't know, there is a big difference between being a geek and a dork!) 😝

[@jcristina]

😂 🤓

[@bloepje]

Don't forget that an attack can also cost a lot extra on bandwidth, as bandwidth is usually sold in 95 percentile, so that means you pay for the lowest speed in the highest 1.5 days. 95 percentile 10Mb/s means: You pay for 10Mb/s as long as you don't exceed that 10Mb/s for more than 1.5 days. Above that you pay a steep price (like $25 per Mb/s). If your link is 100Mb/s and the DDOS manages to fill that for 1.5 days you have to pay 90*$25=$2250 on top of your normal price. This is a real life example. It depends on your ISP if you have to pay $2250 or if they warn you in time.

[@jcristina]

Massive CHUNK of money!

[@OnNaylorTime]

I’m having coffee. Good information shared. Thank You 🎉 Keep up the good work!

[@ridgecamper18]

Thank you for highlighting this event.

[@chrisbarrett5506]

Once again Joe, GREAT content!!

[@jcristina]

Thanks again!

[@lannyplans]

I am happy that you are using your wisdom and expertise to cover some other technical issues. You have unused capacity!

[@lannyplans]

I have a significant amount of content that I have saved up over the decades, but I have very limited knowledge about IT and video production. For example I have a no robot floor cleaning system.

[@rexkirkland3720]

Thanks J, for an interesting video. I am mostly interested in switching my "daily driver" to Linux. Since I am retired, I have no pressing issues but I still want to follow the technology.

[@chrisbrzon3917]

BAD-ASS Cool shirt J! Thanks for the explanation. Finally got on at 745 ish Central.

[@jcristina]

Thank you!!! 💀

[@johnkwolf]

Funny every time Elon does an on x live it goes down?

[@wesmore2007]

Good one enjoyed it.

[@garryhammond3117]

Big geek here Joe - Thanks! - Cheers!

[@crusherfl4464]

Good stuff. 👍

[@Jeffreyrbrady]

Great geekout explanation!!!

[@ianpitcher7693]

Great video, as always

[@jcristina]

Appreciate it!

[@christophbrand]

Even if you're not a nerd or geek ... it's fun to listen to you. Imparting knowledge is more than just listing facts. 🤩 💥 👾

[@lyfandeth]

I liked the part where a straight faced Trump told Elon ".. and your cars don't use much gas" and Elon just let it go by.

[@jcristina]

Good stuff! I wish they were both smoking cigars and having some island rum..

[@sentenced2sail]

He brown-nosed him for two hours, his nose was all orange after the podcast lol

[@trashman1613]

I heard that and took it as sarcasm .

[@tranquilitybase6417]

Yes it’s called sarcasm.

[@HayCabrone]

I own a 2016 Tesla Model S, over 115k miles, and I've never charged my car with a generator nor been on the side of the road. That's actually very comical when people say that 😂. @artisanbusiness1314

[@IronBeagle]

Facinating. 🤔

[@RichardBaileyrichoncode]

Great points about open conversation. I miss the days where we could disagree on a best path forward. Now we are stuck unable to agree on what the objective reality/truth is.

[@lannyplans]

Thanks! and may you have cool water!

[@jcristina]

Thank you so much for your kindness. Blessings!!

[@lannyplans]

@@jcristina I will pay more if you do content about getting rid of windows.

[@jcristina]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@dadbain]

Interesting, very interesting 🤔👍My skills need updating from the early 1970s. 🎅👴👵

[@mabattershell]

Great info 🦸‍♂️

[@Oakie222]

Love your video

[@TerenceKearns]

That was cool.

[@maryleigh8990]

I think it was just all 10 billion people trying to log on at once😂😂😂

[@UCpn82OERMJxlYj6aHS-4klQ]

Great video, it would interesting to see if Harris is and ther are no DDOS attaches or they are mitigated.

[@lowelljeff]

Good One.

[@ewinbarnett9411]

It is not as much as the ability to listen to other viewpoint as it is the ability to respond. Notice what ideologies cannot allow any contrary opinions. That tells me a lot about honesty and rigor of those who advocate it.

[@uajoku]

Commentary and Tutorial in one ...👌

[@Bill_the_Terrible]

Subbed. Thanks for the great content. You should try some Rooibos Tea from South Africa, where I am from.

[@chriscosis]

I just geek’d out. Blessings! 🚀🛰️📡

[@jcristina]

Love

[@olebloom1641]

I was surprised a DDOS happened at all since Elon tends to be a bit paranoid on cyber security.

[@jcristina]

Great point.

[@arnoldsmith5754]

its interesting as usual

[@jcristina]

Blessings.

[@Mcfryguy5555]

Good breakdown!

[@Mcfryguy5555]

💩

[@jcristina]

Thank you.

[@macgyver5108]

Bummer, thought this was going to be a video on the _band_ "Massive Attack" on X... As in the theme song from House MD. 😏 DDOS is like sending tons of junk-mail, only so much can fit in your mailbox or even PO box before you can't fit any more in.

[@davidfofi3572]

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[@honeybadgers1996]

Are you calling me a geek....? LOL Is it possible to undo the DDOS capability "within" the X employee(s) so the system is vulnerable to attack(s) like last night?🤔 Great content. Thanks for sharing.

[@jcristina]

Possible buy there would be finger prints / traced back the person with sysadmin privileges and everything is logged on multiple servers certainly so the logs can’t be easily erased.

[@lannyplans]

Like your Friday evening stream!

[@jcristina]

👍🏻👍🏻 but I showed some stuff instead of just talking about it. 😂

[@lannyplans]

@@jcristina yes your are getting better with your live stream, some banter mixed in with significant content, I am impressed and nothing impresses me because I am a cynical ass!

[@michaelQQQQ2779]

🤙

[@jcristina]

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[@mikeryan392]

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[@rosembelruiz9735]

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[@paulhill2426]

very interesting @jcristina many thanks

[@jcristina]

Thank you Paul.

[@wayne8113]

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[@kevinthiel9552]

👍👍👍

[@jcristina]

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[@PierretteMarie-celineTur-mo5nx]

- Ellection interferences ??? - Today it social security that the Americain population got their info stollen ??? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 1:17

[@jcristina]

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[@nononsenseBennett]

Can a ddos affect financial networks or data centres that control full self driving vehicles for example? If so then we're way too vulnerable.

[@allangraham970]

Teslas take data from their cameras. Based on what the cameras see the car make decisions. No central computer systems are used

[@hellysully]

🥶

[@gregf1299]

I see these malicious attacks in the same light as malicious or spam email, and many will not necessarily like my solution: Implement premium connections, and premium email. In other words, make the sender pay for their network usage. It won't solve every problem, but the reason DDOS and spam happens is because it's free to the sender. As an analog, we don't get too much spam in postal mail because the sender pays the stamp. I know the internet protocols were all about freedom, connectivity and popsicles, but that's all over now...

[@jakobw135]

N. B. You mentioned SMOKEY when you were drinking your tea. Was that, PU-ER tea? 😁

[@StevenYoungcaptual]

Let’s get back to face to face meetings and conversations. This X chat, texting etc is for the birds. Go sit in a nice room and roll the cameras. Ha-Ha…as I sit here on my StarLink Mini in the middle of nowhere.

[@jcristina]

LOVE IT!!!

[@SteveWalker-le4nf]

I don’t consider myself a geek, but I did watch the whole show. Do you already have a video on what happened when Eli took over twitter. I would love to learn the background that you eluded to. What did they do and what did they find out.

[@jcristina]

I did not as it was highly heated at the time. I might do a breakdown in the future.

[@SteveWalker-le4nf]

I would love to hear your take and perspective on what/how it went down. I enjoy listening to you…when you’re not getting kicked under the table!!

[@gerryj8839]

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[@jcristina]

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[@iammacnathan5350]

I’m a geek😎

[@Arturo-lapaz]

😢

[@markoneil8286]

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[@RichardBaileyrichoncode]

How could X identify ddos versus just higher than expected traffic? In a low trust environment, how can X prove to the world that this was ddos?

[@aftardog]

Tested for 8m users but had 23M. No reports of problems with other aspects of Twitter. My best guesses as to actual cause in order of likelihood: Under provisioned or misconfigured some service or component not identified as bottleneck in testing Disabled some DDOS protections to do testing and did not reset to needed production settings Edge case DDOS vulnerability not previously identified Establishing functionality in relatively short time period points to something Twitter had control over and should have been configured to handle. New/novel attacks are usually not quashed so quickly.

[@joaomarcelobadu]

- Great content!

[@jcristina]

Yes

[@Starship007]

Initially I tried to go on X but unable. My First KZbin channel worked for 10 minutes then it went off stated my Minutes on KZbin was exceeded or something like that. That has never happened and I was not watching KZbin the whole day until tuning into the podcast

[@jcristina]

ouch

[@DCGreenZone]

A huge IQ chasm, or was there? 😂

[@cpuuk]

You know, there's a pretty good argument that the DDoS was in fact just millions of Users trying to get onto a service that couldn't handle it.

[@markmichal2952]

A pink poop emoji ???/ Crap man that's um... LOL

[@matthehazard6986]

The easiest way to explain a ddos attack in my opinion is using customer service. When someone calls customer service, a company or the government you get the 'your call is important to us please hold' which is a denial of service. The department you are trying to connect to will have x employees but if x + 1 people try to call in then the + 1 person gets denied service. it's distributed because many people from all over the country are calling in. It's simple and people can understand the example, even though it may not be 100% 1 to 1 example.

[@jcristina]

Point well taken.

[@RandyBeers]

👀

[@jcristina]

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[@walkman1269]

Hey I smell mint linux? I cut the Windows cord a little over a year ago. I see a green terminal window. I love LMDE 6 and kinda LM 22. I hope to be a Linux Administrator when I grow up one day. I'm 54 so..... Well I am still a field tech still. I guy with a cell phone, tool belt, and a laptop which proudly runs LMDE 6. Oh don't worry Mr. Comcast support guy in India that needs to do Logmein. I installed a Windows 10 Virtual machine just for you!!

[@walkman1269]

I'll have to try that grep nested netstat command. It's too long to remember.

[@rednecktech70]

So I have a question why are you not putting videos up on Rumble any longer? We need to move away from KZbin

[@jcristina]

I've authorized Rumble to grab my videos as soon as they are uploaded on KZbin to lessen the amount of redundant work.. If they stopped, I have not idea why.. I'll have to check into it.

[@sentenced2sail]

The what??

[@rednecktech70]

@@jcristina there must be something up. Not seeing recent videos

[@MrREDSTAR20]

Also did Donald trump always have a lisp? I just noticed that during the conversation.

[@NakedProphet]

Trump's dental appliances need serious tweaking. He needs a new dentist/Orthodontist.

[@jcristina]

I have a feeling it was the audio processing taking the "high-end" and boosting it for clarity.

[@MrREDSTAR20]

I see I thought trump sound off bit

[@k9spen]

Old school analog poop emoji!

[@richardsowers1424]

WTH!

[@chrisbrzon3917]

So how did Elon/X fix it in 45 minutes? Maybe he just limited to us Starlink IPs...lol.

[@jcristina]

Guessing honeypot / blacklist / reroute

[@sagreene70]

very informative... TU

[@Starship007]

Are you able to find an individual on your channel by their comment?

[@jcristina]

KZbin comment search or anything of value for the content creators is very lacking to say the least.

[@wjonthetrail]

Pink poo Ok Well we have a donut shop here called The Pink box And they sell pink 💩 And maybe a few moles still embedded Twitter people working at X

[@jcristina]

Lol

[@atypocrat1779]

Elon fired everyone. so no wonder

[@jcristina]

Yes

[@WarlordMoA]

The problem here X app is the problem and the phones that was used should have been secured by the Secret Service and there trained DHS agents, these conversations should have never happened in the first place because it was based on ego and Internet traffic to continue what is relevant to the Republican agenda since Elon Musk shifted his political relationship, aside from that he had his own accounts locked out of the servers while the DDOS was on going..,

[@lannyplans]

Some zombie mitigated the mitigation

[@jcristina]

😆

[@Me__Myself__and__I]

Wow this is bad info. I've worked as a network engineer and for ISPs. This guy either doesn't really know his stuff or he is very bad at explaining. Because some of the stuff he says is just wrong and others would either be irrelevant or very different than described under a DDOS attack. For example netstat and tcpdump are not useful manually because you would have yhousands or tens of thousands of simultaneous connections that would be changing every few seconds. No way a human could analyze that in real time, you'd need specialized tools that injest and analyze that data rapidly. Also, if the bot net is being controlled from India, you're never going to see that from the target! The control will talk only to the bots, the bots will flood the target with requests. There will be no traffic from the control to the target.

[@jcristina]

Obviously people watching would not have AI based software specialized software. I was trying to make it easier for the layman to understand the “just” behind what is going on. Parsing data through awk real-time is possible but it will only show top level information of course. Maybe you would like to dig into Arbor, Radware or maybe Kona for the folks. Let it rip my friend. I’m always open to learn.

[@Me__Myself__and__I]

@@jcristina I appreciate your willingness to discuss. My suggestion going forward would be if you're knowingly simplifying something then at least mention that. Say something like "this won't scale up for larger sites but is a starting point for smaller sites." The way your video came off was very authoritative and made it sound like this is how the pros do things for big sites. FYI I've used those commands, even with AWK, on smaller servers at an ISP. Even with a relatively small number (hundreds) of concurrent users the volume of data was difficult to sift through in real-time. I haven't done network engineering full time for awhile now so I'm not up on what the current tools are. If you know of open source or reasonably cheap tools I'd suggest mentioning them in your videos. Even if you're simplifying things for your typical viewers, drop some breadcrumbs so people who need more have a path for additional research. This was the only video of yours I've ever seen and I think my main issue was just how authoritative and "correct" you came off in your presentation while glossing over or grossly simplifying some things.

[@Dutch-linux]

but you can use fail2ban for DDoS attacks make it block after like 5 attempts for 10 minutes... it aint that hard to do

[@mrmcgoo39]

zz when big tech is in charge of free speech we’re all in trouble just to give you a little history lesson Western Churchill once made the statement about meeting and talking with people that didn’t like him. He said it’s better to be on the inside talking on the outside, wondering

[@Bobsadventuresfl]

👍😎💩 your kung fu is strong

[@jcristina]

Ahhhh Thank you sifu...

[@tomrio9914]

Ideology aside, Elon Musk has cultivated so many friends and influenced so many highly trained nerds/geeks that it’s very hard to imagine this happening. It is conceivable he once employed just one person that may have been equipped with the ability. As you just mentioned going cheap can become expensive.

[@FarmerRiddick]

This minor geek learned things, which is a good thing!

[@jcristina]

😂 thanks for taking the time a sharing the video.

[@johnkwolf]

I hope Elon wake up now and get away from trump

[@dominiclavu193]

🤓🤓🤓

[@jcristina]

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[@ChaseNoStraighter]

I didn’t hear anything interesting in the conversation.

[@jcristina]

Interest is always based on perspective.

[@bear4759]

💩 I'm a nerd 2 💩

[@jcristina]

😝

[@bear4759]

[@davidfofi3572]

TRUMP2024

[@Starship007]

Great podcast Trump/Musk. 2 powerful billionaires that are financial geniuses.Discussed the American Dream and the great future for America. There is a branch in the road which must be addressed now. Capitalism made the middle class and American Dream. Very refreshing podcast. Musk explained inflation and government overspending with money it does not have. Luckily major KZbinrs were able to allow many to hear podcasts as individually trying to get on line X was difficult.

[@jcristina]

Elon does explain in "SIMPLE TERMS" I do like that.

[@sentenced2sail]

It`s called Twitter, i don`t care what the african dude calls it lol

[@jimle22]

The African dude owns the platform dude. He can call it whatever he wants.

[@jcristina]

😂

[@gmeister03]

He owns it. It’s called X

[@thesurvivalist.]

Kick Rocks!

[@sentenced2sail]

@@gmeister03 Never heard it being called that. And the posts, are they x`s? GTFOH

[@robertclark7305]

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[@jcristina]

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