It is amazing how much this society relies on the internet. Communication these days is mostly done via the internet. We have put a lot of time and work into building up this internet craze, but what if the internet goes down?
Do we or will we have systems in place to compensate?
Books or PDF files?
Paper or digital tablets?
The cloud, or booku hard drives?
Update: This link from Frob is useful:
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/data_backup_options.pdf
What if the Internet goes down?
Im waiting for the orchestrated attack from the dolphins cutting all the sea cables simultaneously.
Those Creatures are evil.
Which part of the internet going down are you asking about? Obviously the entire network's not going to fail all at once and disappear - that was the design goal. So you have to highlight specific points of failure and look at what happens. For example, the DNS system is fairly vulnerable as a whole. What happens if the whole DNS functionality disappears? Another one: what happens if ISP interconnection ends entirely and things get siloed?
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There is some type of facility, a tower of some sort, that if that was either hacked or damaged, it would cause the whole internet to go down. I heard of it on a report. Let me see if I can find it.
There is some type of facility, a tower of some sort, that if that was either hacked or damaged, it would cause the whole internet to go down. I heard of it on a report. Let me see if I can find it.
A solar flare could hit the Earth tomorrow and return modern society to the dark ages.
Is it possible? Sure. Is it worth worrying about? Not so much.
There is always a way for the world to end. Somehow it keeps on ticking...
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Perhaps at best, an attack would render the internet useless, but even then, it is out of business. I found an article, but not the one I was looking for:
http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet
Quote: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866064/2015-the-year-the-internet-crashes-hard.html
How these attacks be made isn’t so mysterious. Attackers need only abuse long-existing problems in such basic Internet protocols as Network Time Protocol (NTP) andDomain Name System (DNS). We are running the Internet using decades-old technology, and we’ve been really, really lazy about upgrading it.
There is some type of facility, a tower of some sort, that if that was either hacked or damaged, it would cause the whole internet to go down.
Nope, that's a Stephen King novel. :P
Quote: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866064/2015-the-year-the-internet-crashes-hard.html
That was a really stupid article. Apparently the author thinks that somebody will launch a DDoS so freaking big that it will stop the internet? Ugh.
http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet
That is a totally impossible set of circumstances. There are thousands of undersea cables and tens of thousands of major data centers. You can't just arbitrarily destroy them.
The closest to plausible is a total takedown of the the DNS system. This is not beyond the pale, but it's actually not that big a deal.
The closest to plausible is a total takedown of the the DNS system. This is not beyond the pale, but it's actually not that big a deal.
And has pretty much happened already.
Back in around 2001/2002 there was an attack on the master DNS servers, for a while DNS lookups just failed (18h or so maybe?) - only reason I knew anything about it was due to using a bouncer on a static IP I still had access to IRC where I knew some ISP admins. That day was great
There was also the time when one of the UK <==> US transatlantic links went down (I believe it was cut at the UK end by mistake, but this was 10+ years go so foggy memory and all that), same sort of time frame, which slowed traffic to US servers to a crawl... also a fun day
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