Is an internet blackout coming?
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Cameron Martinez
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Ayden Baker
It already came
Juan Howard
I'm talking about a total shutdown.
Jackson Martinez
no, all stock markets would crash to zero, because it is almost impossible to destroy all servers at once.
Zachary Johnson
not with that attitude it aint
Wyatt Lewis
Sun could do it if it wants, but would be a big solar flare
Michael Adams
fuck off to
Jaxson Martin
It would take a huge effort to bring about a total internet blackout. I think the easiest way would be to target every major DNS provider on the planet and take them all offline at the same time. Even then, they would probably be brought back online within a few hours/days depending on how much damage is done.
Jackson Turner
for you
Jaxson Campbell
this
Ian Peterson
I'm not talking about a hack more so a kill switch.
Cooper Flores
nah it would just take a single piece of shit dictatorship company accidentally publishing a BGP route that black holes the entire internet
it's literally more likely than you think. didn't turkey pretty much block google/youtube worldwide once
Kevin Foster
the scapegoat
Connor Edwards
Maybe if a sun goes supernova in the nearest 20 lightyears, wiping out all life as we know it on Earth.
Jose Cox
but what if someone hacked it?
Cooper Johnson
That would end civilization as we know it. Even just a few hours of downtime would cause trillions in damage.
Leo Perez
the internet (see ARPANet) was designed to be resilient so that if a few nodes (even backbone nodes) were destroyed (this was the cold war, remember?) the network would remain operational.
Back then DARPA held the only backbone to the internet, now it is distributed among several entities so no that's highly unlikely to happen.
What is more likely to happen is country-wide firewalls (see: china and korea), and the consumer-side of the internet being tightly controlled by authorities.
As of right now, most of what was the internet back in the 90s, what remains of those old days, is pretty much buried under the Web 2.0 bullshit and the big monopolies that are Google, Facebook, Reddit, etc.
The closest thing that may happen to what you're thinking is something like the recent hax on Yahoo and the company that provides service for Twitter. Big hax and DDoSes making any such server inaccessible for a considerable amount of time.
Liam Cruz
I predicted it
Jeremiah Wood
you better have some good porn and music stashed away so your computer dont become totally useless without internet
Anthony Rogers
>The sun can't go supernova. It'll go Red Giant when it has to. But no Suoernova.
Jose King
Is ~1TB enough or should I load more?
James Richardson
worldwide emp's to kill all consumers grade devices and several hundred 1600 pound hackers getting simultaneous control of shielded and protected nodes and backbones.
would it be enough?
Chase Mitchell
it's habbening
Jose Reed
I wish. I wish the whole internet would go down, for at least a week.
Luis Anderson
You wouldn't get a total shutdown, but if Intel decided to activate a hidden kill switch, then it would be game over for a good 95% of the internet. I do believe that Intel has something like this in their Management Engine which has full hardware/software access and functions independently of the main CPU while still being buried inside of it. Intel should start advertising as Intel inside of Intel inside. Anyways, the only ones who wouldn't be totally castrated by this are the nerds with Raspberry Pis or Libreboot computers. A similar backdoor exists in AMD CPUs through PSP and I think that many ARM devices are also compromised in this way. So you wouldn't get a complete blackout, but it would be pretty damn close.
Xavier Rivera
>internet blackouts happen
>it gets out it was done intentionally by the major companies
>riots break out, company headquarters are stormed
>CEOS are hung on street lights
I don't see a problem with this
Austin Walker
That DOS shut down a fair bit of shit at my work.
The current web is fucked and we're going to see it get worse as holes open in all the devices coming online.
Imagine the catastrophe if some kind of Intel ME key leaked.
Death by IoT.
Justin James
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Robert Gray
>The current web is fucked
How so?
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Luis Long
Stop role-playing, Sup Forums.
Christopher Cooper
>In the future we'll have the Intelception series
>Intel inside of Intel inside of Intel inside of Intel inside
>Now with 500% more backdoors
Brody Hernandez
It wouldn't surprise me. I've already switched to ARM in the form of a Raspberry Pi Zero which is powerful enough to do basic web browsing, play back MP3s, and do spreadsheets in Google Docs. It's a very inexpensive computer and it's easy to use.
If anyone is interested, here's what I use (minus keyboard, mouse, and monitor [which most are compatible anyways]):
RPi Zero board (about $17): amazon.com
Extra USB ports addon (about $17): amazon.com
32GB Micro SD card (about $13): amazon.com
Ian Williams
Almost forgot...
WiFi adapter (about $8): amazon.com