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).
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Friday September 16 2016, @02:23PM
When the Chinese and Russian guns are better than yours...
The Russian ones, IMHO, far outweigh the Chinese ones. Which would explain why Our Fearless Leader banned the import of all-things-Russian [nraila.org]. Probably to keep this lil gem [wikipedia.org] outta everyone's hands (at least the Chinese have a knock-off).
Just mouthing the words "12-Gauge Shotgun AK" will make you grow (more) hair on your chest.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.