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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:16PM (#402522)

    Build Internet 2.0, which doesn't rely so much on centralization. I don't need or want ISPs to have so much power, and don't want that stupid IP scheme of yours. What a privacy nightmare.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:27PM (#402907)

    Ideally I agree with you completely. In reality, though, someone will *always* have the power to pull plugs or shape traffic. Even if "distributed" there still have to be pipes and gates and somebodies will hold the wrenches. The degree of privacy and anonymity we already have is what allows the overwhelming majority of traffic to be attack attempts and unsolicited content. So you can build your own Internet 2.5 that's a wild west frontier, but shove your stupid privacy scheme. The rest of us don't care if we're not private on the Internet but do care about having our servers dicked with, our bandwidth clogged by fake little blue pills, and want a system to confidently transmit financial and other personal data over securely. And we want to be able to hold others as accountable as we wish to be held to ourselves.