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Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

posted by takyon on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the points-of-failure dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/someone-learning-how-take-down-internet

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses.

Sounds like as good a reason as any to develop a more distributed internet. Fight fire with fire - When the attacks are distributed denial of service on centralized systems, the solution is decentralization and distributed delivery of service (P2P).

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:20PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:20PM (#402448) Journal

    "I can't get money"

    Who needs money when you have guns?

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @09:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @09:00PM (#402473)

    When the Chinese and Russian guns are better than yours, you're better off at least pretending your money is worth something.

    • (Score: 1) by AssCork on Friday September 16 2016, @02:23PM

      by AssCork (6255) on Friday September 16 2016, @02:23PM (#402795) Journal

      When the Chinese and Russian guns are better than yours...

      The Russian ones, IMHO, far outweigh the Chinese ones. Which would explain why Our Fearless Leader banned the import of all-things-Russian [nraila.org]. Probably to keep this lil gem [wikipedia.org] outta everyone's hands (at least the Chinese have a knock-off).
      Just mouthing the words "12-Gauge Shotgun AK" will make you grow (more) hair on your chest.

      --
      Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.

  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Friday September 16 2016, @01:18AM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Friday September 16 2016, @01:18AM (#402574) Journal

    You might need to buy some bullets for those guns.

    After that, though, you're golden!

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 16 2016, @01:35AM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 16 2016, @01:35AM (#402581) Journal

      I have the junk rounds [wikia.com] perk. As long as I can find tin cans and scrap metal, I'll be fine.

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      Washington DC delenda est.