Canada confirms panicked US citizens were behind immigration site crash
Nov11
It wouldn’t be an election season without threats of ‘moving to Canada’ if the the candidate you don’t like wins. This year, however, the fight-or-flight response seems to have kicked in full force. On election night, we reported a rather humorous scoop that the Canadian immigration website was down. While we were unsure of the cause at the time, it was rather safe to assume concerned US citizens were the culprit. Turns out, we weren’t wrong. Canada today confirmed that would-be expats were indeed behind the crash. The unexpected surge saw the website shoot up to 200,000 simultaneous visitors at one point,…
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