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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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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday September 16 2016, @09:28AM
So again I ask. How do Russia and China magically know how much resources it will take without actually measuring?
Oops. I see what's got your knickers in a twist now. I made no claims about what China or Russia knows/has or doesn't know/doesn't have. That was another poster. I'm not the AC [soylentnews.org] or Bob_Super [soylentnews.org]. Those are the guys who made that claim.
As such, I didn't try to support their claims, I answered a specific question you asked. Oh, and you're welcome.
I will say that given the resources (in money, infrastructure and people) that Russia and China have available to them, it would be unsurprising if they did, in fact, have a pretty good idea what it would take to effect significant and devastating attacks against large swathes of the Internet.
That said, I have no specific knowledge (I'm not an intelligence analyst focused on China and Russia, nor have I put much effort into investigating their capabilities) about what Russia and China capabilities may be. Which is why I didn't address that.
However, I do know networks and network security. The tools to effect such attacks exist and are relatively easy to use and manage, even with a large-scale attack.
I repeat my invitation to engage with the rest of us in productive discussion.
You might also want to thumb through this [yourcoach.be]. You might find it useful in the future.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr