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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: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday September 16 2016, @01:46PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @01:46PM (#402768) Journal

    You can have a look at my reply to NotSanguine. One should try to avoid assumptions. Don't idolize anyone. Don't give too much credence to past actions. Don't trust.

    I'm not saying it like it's easy or particularly achievable but actually trying (or maybe even thinking about it at all on a regular basis) seems to be enough to take it more seriously than the vast majority. It will make you question yourself a lot in hindsight, stuff like simple actions, natural inclinations, your own position. It's brutal, it's not comforting.

    Want something truly depressive? Read the leaked Tor internal chat log from this June. They all act like idiots in just about every way possible! The pdf is better than the pastebin because names.

                                    Here it is [cryptome.org].

    I'm glad I don't use TOR and I am more than a little worried about how extremely easy it is/would be to manipulate every single one of them by having the "correct opinions". It becomes even more funny that Schneier is on the TOR board now.

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