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I'd expect in case of actual war, prepare for commercial network connectivity to fail. Satellites? Shot down. Fiber? ISP and higher-level routers are owned or
by rocqua 5y ago
I'd expect in case of actual war, prepare for commercial network connectivity to fail.
Satellites? Shot down.
Fiber? ISP and higher-level routers are owned or simply DDOSed
Cellular? what parts of the edge are owned is down, the core networks get targeted heavily. At best this will be spotty.
The big internet-interconnects? Targets for cruise missiles and any other viable attacks.
BGP? Fully poisoned and needs to be cleaned up before anything works.
I'd expect the DoD to have their own networks up that are much more resilient. But our current highly interconnected, triered, and multi-faceted internet is going down the moment war between the great nations breaks out. It is simply too easy, and too valuable for the enemy not to do this.
- KineticLensman 5y agoAlso cutting underwater cables. In the news in the last few days as a potential act of war [0], and the real-world effects have already been , e.g. [1] [0] https://www.forces.net/news/chief-defence-staff-russia-cutting-underwater-cables-could-be-act-war https://www.forces.net/news/chief-defence-staff-russia-cutti... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruptio...
- jmnicolas 5y agoTo your list I would add a nice virus that wipes clean all the hard drives in the commercial clouds. Just that would decimate the West and would need decades to recover from.
- jnurmine 5y agoUnless EMPs also wipe out consumer electronics, there will likely be only islands of connectivity. I'm thinking folks with WIFI gadgets and COTS networking gear could very well build local connectivity, but those islands would be unable to talk to each other. The WIFI gadgets would have to mesh up over distances which are likely to exceed their range. Jamming and a generally dirty RF environment is likely in a war of such magnitude, so perhaps distributed laser links would work best, if one could create line of sight between the link nodes.