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"Power cycle all 10,000 (or however many there are) network nodes simultaneously" is so far out of the realm of feasibility as to be humorous. There is a lot o
by naikrovek 7y ago
"Power cycle all 10,000 (or however many there are) network nodes simultaneously" is so far out of the realm of feasibility as to be humorous. There is a lot of infrastructure designed to keep those things powered up at almost any cost and approximately zero infrastructure designed to intentionally bring a network of that size down in one swoop.
- Causality1 7y agoStill, "packet that lasts forever and tells nodes to send to all" sounds more like how the hero of a 70s movie kills an evil robot than something that'd cause a 37-hour infrastructure failure in 2019.