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I aim to misbehave
Quote: Charles D*ckens, Jan 2011
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He's Olyphantastic!
Quote: Abin Cooper, Jan 2011Quote: Charles D*ckens, Jan 2011Quote: Animal, Jan 2011Quote: James, Jan 2011How would you survive if the government killed the internet? I had no laptop today and got a sh*tload done.We were talking about this in work the other week. Conversation then devolved into just how easy it would be to use the internet, or ratehr massive denial of internet as a mjaor terrorist attack.
In all seriousness, it wouldn't take much effort to completely bring the world to a standstill.
A few staff in ISP's throughout the world. A remotely triggered bomb stored in a 1 or 2U rack mount server, thats destined for a major POP or nodal point. (Seriously, security checks at these places are none existant - at least in the UK, so it would be alarmingly easy to set this up.) You could even leave it so the server was fully functional if you so chose.
Set them all off at once and sit back to watch the forthcoming global meltdown.
Sure there are other 'dark' and essentially 'off grid' services in place for use by the governments and militaries but they would never be able to cope with the scale of traffic needed to keep the worlds economy afloat for long enough to conduct more than a few minutes business. Something of this scale is recoverable, but it would take days, possibly weeks to get things back in order - the events that would occur in that time would pretty much do the damage needed.
And then you'd just have to penetrate their protocols and you'd be in control of everything.
But what about the firewall, George? WHAT ABOUT THE FIREWALL?!
IT IS A WALL THAT IS ALREADY ON FIRE, I THINK IT WILL COLLAPSE WITHOUT ANY REAL EFFORT, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I AM TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
He's Olyphantastic!
I aim to misbehave
One last thing before the thread goes back to being about people dying n stuff
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