wouldn't be that effective unless they managed to cut -all- the redundancies, sever sky communications and disable satellites simultaneously.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;48986407]wouldn't be that effective unless they managed to cut -all- the redundancies, sever sky communications and disable satellites simultaneously.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]However, he added that cutting the US off from the web would probably be impossible because of the number of connections going in and out of the country.
"I very much doubt that anyone would think of cutting off the US," he comments. "It is only going to work in locations where the internet geography is going to create a vulnerability in communications."[/QUOTE]
I'm not talking about just the US.
Crippling undersea communications would be good enough in the case of some weaker infrastructure i.e. middle east. It's all there in the article.
building a datacenter to ddos internet backbones in the usa would cost cheaper then buying one sub
Russian Sub = US$1.6 billion
A Google's data center = $770M
wouldn't that be cutting Russia off from the US, because IIRC the internet starts in the US?
Why cut cables when you can just announce some bad routes through BGP.
[QUOTE=damnatus;48987285]wouldn't that be cutting Russia off from the US, because IIRC the internet starts in the US?[/QUOTE]
Internet is decentralized.
[QUOTE=maurits150;48987343]Why cut cables when you can just announce some bad routes through BGP.[/QUOTE]
Because sensationalism
If relations ever got to the point where they would do something like this the least of your concern is gonna be the internet lmao
they want to stop the anime from coming in
[QUOTE=damnatus;48987285]wouldn't that be cutting Russia off from the US, because IIRC the internet starts in the US?[/QUOTE]
The internet as we know it is made up of millions, billions possibly even trillions of links between servers, hosts and IT infrastructure, by cutting cables at certain points, you would cause convergence to break and depending on protocols and physical equipment, the internet would try to route around the vanished links.
By doing this you not only sever key infrastructure but force traffic to attempt to move around through other places or 'peer' through different transit points which chokes up traffic even more.
Two major issues crop up from this.
A, Loss of network convergence which causes disruption to a network and communication between continents.
B, Large scale convergence attempting to take place, migrating millions of virtual links around the world in an attempt to establish convergence again.
You sever something and then it slowly strangles everything else around it until someone is smart enough to say 'Piss off you're not coming through here' which still leaves you with a large portion of places cut off.
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