Posted on 09/14/2016 9:55:02 AM PDT by amorphous
Taking down the internet can mean two things:
(1) Literally shutting down the internet itself which sends and receives messages between IP addresses (dd.dd.dd.dd). The internet is spread over thousands of routers and there are numerous paths for getting from point a to point b, and the routers are capable of automatically detecting failed links and rerouting to operative ones. It would be practically impossible to shut this thing down.
(2) Shut down the directories (called Name Servers or DNS) that convert such things as yahoo.com to its IP address. There are also lots of Name Servers but it would be easier to cripple this system. The DNS system is a user of the internet, not the internet itself (depending on your own definition of “internet”. It would be easier to cripple the DNS system.
Maybe we should be saving a few IP addresses so we could get to our favorite places even if the DNS system went down. Actually this wouldn’t work will for the complex websites because they call upon the DNS system to fetch supplemental pages that make up what you see.
I’m done for now.
Yup, Obama.
I own a Manufacturer's rep firm. We deal in higher technology for industries. I would say 90% of my business is now through emails.
Maybe we should start stockpiling tin cans and string.
And pigeons.
I stopped watching once they had the graphic gay sex scenes...are they still pushing that agenda?
So, handing over control of the internet is far more than just a potential censorship issue, it’s handing over control of a large portion of the US economy. Is that a fair statement?
Well...life as we knew it before, say, 1988 (when I first started hearing about it) was really kind of OK.
Is it that entrenched, that losing it would cause so much havoc?
For me it's at best a convenience, at worst one more time-wasting piece of entertainment. I'd probably be better off without it, though I won't give it up willingly.
Don't beat yourself up. Even among those of us who are skilled with computers, no one can know it all. No one can know TWO PERCENT of it all. These are teams of hundreds of experts, all expert in their small area.
So, handing over control of the internet is far more than just a potential censorship issue, it’s handing over control of a large portion of the US economy. Is that a fair statement?
So ... you’re saying this could really be a crisis?
For me it is a way of gathering not only useful information, but in this AGE OF DECEPTION, TRUTHFUL INFORMATION...
For example, if we did not have the internet,we would not even know that NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS altered Bill’s interview about Hillary fainting spells, etc. We would not even know that Hillary is even sick!
Hard to say. But I did do some research, and it happens a lot whenever one streaming service is working through another streaming service. In our case, we were using Netflix through Amazon. Basically doubling the choke points.
Good thing Russia, China and NK are taking the internet over next month.
I think if Trump becomes President, he should push for worldwide adoption of IPv6 to replace IPv4. IPv6 not only tremendously expands Internet capacity, but potentially could reduce the vulnerability of a attack that could take down the entire Internet.
Just like the virus creators then sell anti-virus software, those who bring the net down will collect their ransom.
More than fair. Not only do I communicate with engineers, buyers, and technicians but I receive my orders, factory shipments, and a lot of times payment all via the internet. Have you noticed banks tellers are cut down as people and business is using the internet instead?
More dangerous would be attacks on physical infrastructure like the fiber lines going into MAE-East and MAE-West. A backhoe, and a judiciously planted quarter-pound of C-4 could really hose things up. Primarily because so much traffic is routed through a limited number of points (at the demand of our feral government to aid their surveillance state). If someone just cuts a bunch of fiber, it can take hours to fix. If you make an attempt to destroy the cable with explosives or whatnot, you could be looking at a bit more time to recover. Fortunately, much infrastructure can be routed around, but by design, some of it is more difficult to deal with.
Even in that case though, I don't see the damage not being fixed after a week. However, even if we recover in a relatively quick time frame, you have to keep in mind that with just-in-time inventory management, some cities would be virtually out of food in less than a week. That's not a good thing when you have large portions of our largest cities that are effectively barely civilized.
There are other ways to attack infrastructure as well, that many people don't think about. A dedicated adversary could screw things up really badly. Let's say you hit big internet infrastructure both physically and logically. This generates a bit of chaos, to further feed that chaos, they might also hit a bunch of the really large transformers across the country. Most people don't know that in many cases, those transformers are custom jobs largely imported from asia (japan). In some cases, there really isn't a hot spare available, especially if someone takes a site out in a determined manner. Dropping a bunch of legs of the grid like that will likely cause most of the rest of the grid to fail as well. How long to replace 50 large multi-million dollar custom built transformers? Months? Years?
Our civilization skates along on a thinner edge than most people are comfortable with thinking about.
White Rose, the transvestite leader of the Dark Army, turned out to be head of the Chicom cyber-security department. The head FBI cyber-security agent is at least bisexual, if not just an insomniac lesbo. Everyone is waiting for Elliot to release Phase II, but he is getting even more and more schizo, so it’s not clear that even he knows what’s going on.
Does that help any? I thought it would.
They’ve gone from about 3.2 million viewers to about 650,000, so there’s a good chance this will be the last season even if Elliot manages to get his stuff together enough to set off Phase II.
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