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Occam's razor: when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions. https://en.wikip

• ASalazarMX 6y ago
  Occam's razor is a guide to start with the simpler explanation. If the simpler explanation is not sufficient, you add more elements until it is. My point is, the Internet rerouting around damage doesn't explain the slowdown, mostly because it happened days after, not immediately, meaning the damaged infrastructure was not critical for the global internet. The attacks unleashed a huge intelligence operation, and it's reasonable to expect a parallel intelligence operation online. If the latter caused a traffic bottleneck or not, we can't know because it was never addressed, it's speculation on my part.
• midasuni 6y ago
  Conspiracy theories are more fun to read. One thing they always fall down is the idea that government bureaucracy is so quick and competent that they could do something like installing mass surveillance at a moments notice while the country is in chaos without it leaking due the next 20 years
  • ASalazarMX 6y ago
    > installing mass surveillance It didn't have to be installed, it was already, although in a pre-Snowden era, governments doing Internet surveillance was the conspiracy theory. My speculation is that more international traffic got routed through the existing surveillance infrastructure, causing a bottleneck that slowly got better.