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Speaking of gluing separate issues on top of each other: If the US government had the same kinds of online services they have in Estonia, could those services
by saint_fiasco 10y ago
Speaking of gluing separate issues on top of each other:
If the US government had the same kinds of online services they have in Estonia, could those services withstand the kind of DDoS attack recently used against krebsonsecurity?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, let's take one agency - the IRS. Could they take what happened to krebsonsecurity? Maybe, maybe not. But then you have the Department of Agriculture, the State Department, and on and on. So: Could that scale of attack shut down one agency? Plausibly yes. Could it shut down the Federal government's internet presence? Almost certainly no.
- asimuvPR 10y agoThere might be a potential issue regarding architecture. Government systems are typically dependant on each other within the same agency. Taking down one server le service might have a domino effect on the rest. Lots of these systems are old and have merely been updated with web guis.