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Surely this is just political grandstanding and nothing more. The statement makes so little sense that either it 1) makes clear the spy does not understand the
by cryptoz 8y ago
Surely this is just political grandstanding and nothing more.
The statement makes so little sense that either it 1) makes clear the spy does not understand the Internet, America, or Russia as the entities that they are in the real world, or 2) he is merely trying to make Russia sound good.
The internet does not belong to the Americans. If anything, the way the Russians have used the internet to subvert democracy and wage a new kind of war, I would say that if the internet belonged to anyone at the moment it belongs to the Russians! (using similar terminology as 'owned boxes' from the old hacker/cracker/scripts cultures)
And second, there is not one blockchain. If he means the entire branch of computer science and mathematics that makes up the workings of a blockchain, he's obviously a madman anyway.
I'll go with assuming the statement is meaningless grandstanding meant to achieve nothing but make Russia sound good to people who don't know anything about the topics discussed.
- api 8y agoTotal grandstanding. The block chain is from everywhere. Nobody even knows where Satoshi, its inventor, is actually from though US, EU, or Japan seem most likely.
- ams6110 8y agoI've noticed that a lot of news and media pieces (including this one) refer to "the" blockchain, which could easily be interpreted as meaning there is only one.
- vbezhenar 8y agoWhat can US do to disrupt the Internet? Turn off root DNS servers, stop issuing SSL certificates (let's encrypt is US entity and many other CA), undelegate a lot of domains, mess with BGP, cut the backbones. I know that many of those services are duplicated, but I think that US can wreak a huge havoc onto Internet. And Russia can't really do anything of that scale. They even struggle to ban Telegram, there's too much dependency on foreign services.
- cryptoz 8y ago> And Russia can't really do anything of that scale. I think they already have, though, and that is my point. I think Russia has done something far more damaging to the internet (and by extension our society) than anything you listed above. Everything you listed above are technical issues that any major player could overcome. Russia has created false realities on the internet, something far more dangerous than rerouting or shutting down technical services.