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The concern is less about traffic interception and more about being able to sever / significantly undermine a country's ability to communicate during, for insta
by envy2 7y ago
The concern is less about traffic interception and more about being able to sever / significantly undermine a country's ability to communicate during, for instance, time of war. This is also largely where the 5G infra concerns come from.
- contingencies 7y agoThe internet was literally designed to solve this problem.
- woliveirajr 7y agoyes, but doesn't as it is used nowadays. Few and big backbones are responsable for almost all traffic. Few and big CDNs serving most of the contents that are used by everybody. Even few apps are "essential" for daily life. Big money was/is created when internet become business as usual: few and big corps taking the biggest share.
- mamon 7y agoBig backbones are only needed for commercial traffic, like Netflix. If it comes to war, I think the first thing US government will do is it will force all ISPs to cut off private network connections in order to 1) save the bandwith 2) stop spreading of inconvenient news.