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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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Moon, n.:
1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See
PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC).
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday September 16 2016, @11:57PM
As far as attacks are concerned, you're absolutely correct.
As for Schneier's motivations, I can't speak to that knowledgeably (perhaps you have some inside information unavailable to the rest of us?), but while your conclusion ("Schneier is shilling for the "elites" and/or the surveillance and manipulation system") is plausible, the fact that Schneier posted this bit on Lawfare [lawfareblog.com], it's also plausible that he wanted to make sure that non-technical (at least in the areas of InfoSec, IT and networks) were aware of the ongoing threats to infrastructure.
Then again, he could well just be trying to inflate his own image with the folks who read Lawfare and their ilk.
Regardless, as I stated in another post [soylentnews.org], it doesn't take much to mount attacks against internet infrastructure, with the major stumbling block to paralyzing large swathes of the internet being one of scale rather than know-how.
I suspect that most people are unaware of that little gem, which might be a motivation for Schneier as well.
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