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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   
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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• I think I may know how to take down the Internet I think I may know how to take down the Internet (Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:47PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:47PM (#402514) Homepage Journal

  I figured it out a couple years ago. I'm not real sure what to do about it because the problem is not easily fixed.

  Sorry I'd rather not say what it is. I want to find someone in a position to fix it first.

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  Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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• Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne (Score: 4, Funny) by JNCF on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:27PM

  by JNCF (4317) on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:27PM (#402527) Journal

  You should phrase it as a rhyme and/or riddle, so that only the true of heart will know the answer.

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• Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne (Score: 4, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:43PM

  by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:43PM (#402529)

  You would not be the first to figure out how to take down the Internet.

  This hacker could have taken down the internet in 30 minutes [techinsider.io] (about congressional testimony in 1998)

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  • Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:59PM (#402535)

    If it's so easy, why has it not happened? It's not as if the 'good guys' are the only ones with a great deal of knowledge.

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    • Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday September 16 2016, @07:03AM

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday September 16 2016, @07:03AM (#402657)

      Not everybody wants to see the world burn.

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• Re:I think I may know how to take down the Interne (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @09:47AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @09:47AM (#402696)

  Of course, all you need to do is to press the big red button! [turnofftheinternet.com]

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