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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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Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @08:43AM
> Aww, don't do that. I need to believe that not everyone out there is an evil corrupt asshole.
Look in the mirror dude.
I am not kidding. Plenty of people think that's you.
Do you think that's you?
Nope.
So maybe, just maybe real life doesn't work the way you think.
But you are probably too old to discover anything new about life.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 16 2016, @01:09PM
Hmm, I do control the British crown and keep the metric system down. But on the bright side you can't see any princes around here for miles.
Washington DC delenda est.