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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: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:42PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:42PM (#402465)

    Make sure you have downloaded enough porn to get you through the dark times....

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:23PM (#402526)

    > Make sure you have downloaded enough porn to get you through the dark times....

    Make sure you've stocked enough food and supplies to get you through the dark times.
    The modern economy is so crazy dependent on a working internet that if it goes to shit for a few weeks we are going to see mass food shortages among all kidns of other problems. Look at what happens to an airline when their computer goes down. Multiply that by every inter-relationship between every businesses of practically every size.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by driven on Friday September 16 2016, @06:00AM

    by driven (6295) on Friday September 16 2016, @06:00AM (#402640)

    Only on a nerd site would that get modded "Insightful". ;)