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What's weird is the final comment, especially coming from a CTO: > "You make some phone calls and hope and pray" With so much phone traffic going over VOIP th
by quicksilver03 16y ago
What's weird is the final comment, especially coming from a CTO:
> "You make some phone calls and hope and pray"
With so much phone traffic going over VOIP these days, if there's really a BGP hijacking then his phone calls haven't much chance of be effective.
- jurjenh 16y agoThat made me think of an old story - never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon. If the internet does go out (and phone with it, because most main carriers use VOIP in the main trunk lines I believe), how many people would actually think of doing something the old physical way? Guess this would be a demonstration of just how seriously we depend on the net in daily life. Would banking be affected - do banks use entirely separate comms lines? Emergency services? Power networks - how is energy usage monitored in nation-wide grids? And what sort of fail-over systems exist?