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> Presumably this makes Russia and China more protected from attacks on the global network. Of course. And North Korea is probably more protected against terro

by toyg 5y ago

> Presumably this makes Russia and China more protected from attacks on the global network. Of course. And North Korea is probably more protected against terrorist attacks than most of the "free world". That doesn't mean it's a good trade-off in general. In practical terms, it depends on what you mean "continue with their internal internets". Most of the points of failure for "internet use as understood by the public", are actually just implementation mistakes by private companies - i.e. nobody says you have to host on (and hence go down with) AWS, or rely on (and hence go down with) Facebook/Google Login. DNS is distributed (it's in the name!); if rootservers went down there would be hiccups for sure, but they could be fixed. Same for the rest of the fundamental network stack; after all, the internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. Whether it would be a good experience (i.e. slow, private services not working, etc), that's something else. If you're based in China and you rely on FB Login, no amount of governmental infrastructure will help you when FB becomes unreachable.

bambataa 5y ago
I’m thinking about fairly close to doomsday scenarios. If/when we reach a point of extreme tension with tit for tat cyber attacks, would Western countries be totally incapacitated for days or weeks while Russia or China were less impacted? Things like food supply, public services etc. Perhaps such things would escalate so quickly that the internet would be the least of our worries.
- toyg 5y ago
  There are books on this sort of things, the topic is vast. From energy supply to commercial food operations, there are a lot of very different situations. This said, I reckon that all-out cyberwar on the scale necessary to impact food supply, would see IRL retaliation too quickly for it to matter. The US military has its own network strategy, its own satellites, etc etc, so they will be ready to pounce.

by toyg 5y ago

bambataa 5y ago

I’m thinking about fairly close to doomsday scenarios. If/when we reach a point of extreme tension with tit for tat cyber attacks, would Western countries be totally incapacitated for days or weeks while Russia or China were less impacted? Things like food supply, public services etc. Perhaps such things would escalate so quickly that the internet would be the least of our worries.

toyg 5y ago
There are books on this sort of things, the topic is vast. From energy supply to commercial food operations, there are a lot of very different situations. This said, I reckon that all-out cyberwar on the scale necessary to impact food supply, would see IRL retaliation too quickly for it to matter. The US military has its own network strategy, its own satellites, etc etc, so they will be ready to pounce.