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I'm not exaggerating at all when I describe this to people as the internet's first existential threat. If things continue to go the way they are, the entire int
by kyledrake 10y ago
I'm not exaggerating at all when I describe this to people as the internet's first existential threat. If things continue to go the way they are, the entire internet will either cease to practically function at all, or it will be nearly completely routed through a small number of enormous centralized corporations running datacenter-sized DDoS scrubbers. Running a web site without being attached to massive amounts of routing power would be rendered impossible.
It's time we started taking this more seriously. It's really, really, really bad.
- languagewars 10y agoI'm really puzzled as to why signed hashes have not essentially fixed the problem for people with largely static sites, like Krebs, AFAIK. No one needs to know how Krebs feeds new signed versions of his website into a proxy cache of at least one ISP, then the resources to block it somewhere are the resources to bring down an ISP from within its clients. In many respects, Akamai is (or was?) that proxycache system and all that is broken is viewing it as an independent entity that doesn't inherently have to have greater resources than all compromised clients. If every ISP were providing that replication for the most hit (such as most attacked) sites then offlining sufficient hacked clients to keep their cache running becomes an entirely local problem.