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Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security
- peter303 9y agoSouth Dakota seems to be under-connected. I wonder why. A lot of fiber was laid along railroad right of ways. SD has both rails and freeways.
- lsjdfkljdfwkwdf 9y agoSimply because this project does not provide any useful information.
- triode3 9y agoWell, if one were moving to the US, stay away from South Dakota, if you like close proximity to a backbone.
- cobbzilla 9y agoNice map of the US in the article, but where's the world map?
- _Codemonkeyism 9y ago"Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security" "To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.1.0 or greater is installed."
- longsleep 9y agoMakes me sad that something "new" still requires Flash in 2017 :/
- ekianjo 9y agoCould have been worse. Sometimes you still find sites requiring Silverlight.
- turblety 9y agoMakes me happy the OP didn't have Flash installed. Fingers crossed they didn't install it just to see the site.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoI didn't :-)
- lsjdfkljdfwkwdf 9y agoWhat is the value of this? Looks like it just draws lines between cities and taxpayers paid for this, not to mention it uses Flash... Any company in transport/dark fiber business probably has something much better with their GIS tools...
- bfirsh 9y agoA link to the actual thing: http://internetatlas.org http://internetatlas.org
- filmor 9y agoEven more direct link: http://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/ http://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/
- spc476 9y agoDid you get written consent to provide that link? Their TOS says you have to: "8. You may not create a link to this Site from another website or document without WAIL's prior written consent."
- kbart 9y agoThis doesn't seem legit. The map is on public Internet, so that's like putting an ad on yellow pages and forbid anyone to call. Add authorization if you need access control.
- adrianN 9y agoI never visited the site, so I didn't have to agree to any ToS, but I heard http://internetatlas.org/ http://internetatlas.org/ contains interesting content.
- kayoone 9y agoI wonder if any of the crawlers in the world care. What a ridiculous thing to put on a website on the public internet.
- tomsthumb 9y agoSeeing as how they don't have a robots.txt, probably not.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoHoly shit, that's literally the funniest thing I saw on the Internet this month. I can imagine how such an idea could occur to someone completely non-technical, but presumably authors of the site are somewhat knowledgeable about the Internet...
- fgrimes 9y agohttp://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/ http://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/
- tangoalpha 9y agoThere is only a screenshot of the US. The world map looks hidden in some url linked in the article. And when you try the link, it works only on flash. No thank you.
- slowmotiony 9y agoI actually did click the "Allow Flash" button, but only to find that the page hanged and I had to kill it. Quite underwhelming so you didn't lose a lot
- nwatson 9y agoExcept that the "hang" is all the malware downloading to your computer.
- marklyon 9y agoEvery time I see maps like this, I'm reminded of WorldCom. All those pipes running through Mississippi, no real way to make use of them.
- alkimie2 9y agoI can't seem to get the links to work. Hacker News effect?
- Aardwolf 9y ago"first detailed map of the Internet's structure worldwide" Opens the link to the article. Sees map of the U.S. only. Finds no links in the article linking to a world map either...
- ptaipale 9y agochuckle World Series of Internet. The article carefully avoids providing a link to the actual site, but it is here: http://internetatlas.org/ http://internetatlas.org/
- lloydjatkinson 9y agoI wonder why people get off on writing articles and hinting at the reader about the original article or PDF and then never linking it? Are they that desperate to keep people on their site just for the ads?
- rindalir 9y agoThis is somewhat odd, but in the Terms and Conditions on the original site it prohibits linking to the site from any other site or document...
- euyyn 9y agolol so Hacker News is out of compliance with those terms now?
- gefh 9y agoI prohibit you from _not_ linking to it. It's roughly the same legal argument.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoNah, copyright law prohibits by default as I read it. Then, author selectively grants permissions.
- chippy 9y agoIt's not the first internet atlas, and I'm not sure how detailed it is (cant open it because of Flash), or how accurate and what bias it may have either (I see that it is US Govt DHS funded). Last year I helped develop The New Cloud Atlas https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-atlas-mapping-the-physical-infrastructure-of-the-internet/ https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-at... which is essentially a custom map rendering of Internet and Telecoms infrastructure from OpenStreetMap. If you want to add more information to a map of the Internet, add it to OSM. (edits: added link to blog post explaining it)
- bahjoite 9y agoFascinating blog post and project; thank you for sharing. It would be nice if the Atlas were available over HTTPS.
- peter303 9y agoThere has been incidents where areas of the world have been temporarily cut off because their main cable was accidentally or intentionally cut.
- ak007 9y agoSomething like this exists already http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ I found this to be much better
- UberActivist 9y agoThat's just underwater cables though. That's not the actual land infrastructure that connects everyone together.
- ak007 9y agoYou are correct !
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- geoffreyhale 9y agoWhat % of internet traffic travels via physical links?
- vernie 9y agoThe Flash viewer and ridiculous TOS doesn't give me much confidence in their data.