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The worrying thing is that a suitably insane whackjob somewhere could spin up their ipcamera botnet and knock, say, half the planet's ISP offline at once. All
by chillydawg 10y ago
The worrying thing is that a suitably insane whackjob somewhere could spin up their ipcamera botnet and knock, say, half the planet's ISP offline at once.
All routing would stop, the internet would simply grind to a halt. Am I missing something?
- lmm 10y agoNot all routing by any means. Just anyone using those particular Cisco and other routers. Fortunately the net routes around damage by design; as routers went offline, other paths would be found.