Twitter & Facebook PROBLEMS LOL

[Recursion]

From Wikipedia:

"On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack.""

Oh dear.

WIN!

[efq]

From Wikipedia:

"On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack.""

Oh dear.

Seriously, why not just storm it with police lol? Probably cheaper lmao

[HotelUser]

From Wikipedia:

"On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack.""

Oh dear.

Could be true, but if it's posted on Wikipedia then it's questionable.

[efq]

Yeah, you could understand the full extent and severity of a cyberattack into critical information is just as bad as anything else. So to prevent such vital information getting out then you must kill them haha.

[Jordy]

From Wikipedia:

"On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack.""

Oh dear.

That's pretty cool but it'd be coming from computers from all over the world so bombing would be useless.

Frankly the best way to kill the internet or cut the US off is to sever all the telephone lines under the sea, I imagine it's quite easy judging by how easy they've severed in the past, they take many weeks to fix usually as well. I do wonder why terrorist groups wanting loads of attention don't actually do this, it's easy and you'll cause an enormous amount of disruption.

[Recursion]

That's pretty cool but it'd be coming from computers from all over the world so bombing would be useless.

Frankly the best way to kill the internet or cut the US off is to sever all the telephone lines under the sea, I imagine it's quite easy judging by how easy they've severed in the past, they take many weeks to fix usually as well. I do wonder why terrorist groups wanting loads of attention don't actually do this, it's easy and you'll cause an enormous amount of disruption.

Satellites?

[N!ck]

US hosted websites would still be available. And there's be too many to break to completely cut them off. Plus those that go through Mexico or Canada then accross the sea.

[Jordy]

You'd still cause downtime in some areas and it would be slower to say the least, I'm not too sure how many telephones lines there is though? And yeah satellites would be used for essential things (Government related activities) but that's not plausible for home users.

[Recursion]

You can get a satellite internet connection, IIRC a few yrs back they were like $50k though lolz

[Mentor]

The root servers of the internet are pretty safe i imagine, since there designed with the capasity to handle more aless every pc with an internet connection at once anyway (so even a bot net of a good % of the planet would not be all that effective)
That said most requests would never get near the root servers, alot of stuff never needs to be forwarded that high, they only resolve the tld's etc
Even with tld down, the sites internal to specific countarys would all work normally, many isp equally would likely have a pretty large amount of domain resolutions cached as well
The internet still has its roots in technolgy designed to surivive nuclear war, its pretty danm resiliant as a whole