.... crucial part of the internet that has been made more vulnerable due to an Obama administration decision to surrender American control, according to experts.
Websites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and many others were not working for a large portion of U.S. citizens Friday, after unknown hackers breached the servers of Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) host. Essentially the “yellow pages” of online addresses, DNS is the technical network that converts web address names into numbers.
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I am still extremely frustrated over the Internet Transfer—so many ramifications, none of them good...
I just have to point out...Many said, “The ICANN transfer was much hype about nothing, “Talked to a relative in computing that said ‘it is no big deal’,” “Internet is nothing but porn so good riddance,” and then on October 1, said, “See the internet is still here~no problem” or my favorite “We will build a better one,” and so on and so on...
Too many folks ignored the warnings, and you know who you are...
Note: It has been less than one month since the “giveaway,” and the outages last week have been linked to the Internet giveaway...this article is not the first to do so BTW.
Now there are threads posted on how to keep in touch on FR (and in general), and what to do if the internet goes out...They are a good idea in general, but wouldn’t it have been better to mobilize to keep our internet safe?
I don’t know if anything can be done to “get it back,” but we sure should try after the election regardless of the outcome...
As we have seen the media is nothing but lying misleading propaganda, and if we don’t have the internet to share TRUTHFUL INFORMATION, we are in deep trouble going forward.
To those of you who did all that you could, I thank you from bottom of my heart as do the others who tried to stop this. Now I ask you to think...is there anything that we can do now? Can we do more?
I just have to point out...Many said, “The ICANN transfer was much hype about nothing, “Talked to a relative in computing that said ‘it is no big deal’,” “Internet is nothing but porn so good riddance,” and then on October 1, said, “See the internet is still here~no problem” or my favorite “We will build a better one,” and so on and so on...
It’s the “We will build a better one” comment that I have been thinking about lately.
I know it’s a bit conspiratorial, but can you imagine the money that will be made if virtually everyone has to “upgrade” their devices?