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The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine
- nonrandomstring 5y agoHere's a few things I think we need to learn from this. > Lack of market concentration at end-user networks After reading a lot on "resilience engineering" I wrote a chapter "Technology is a diversity issue" in Digital Vegan. Ultimately the BigTech situation in the US (and our dependency in Europe) is antithetical to the original DARPA brief and overall national security. > significant amounts of users are Ukrainian companies Local tech is local power and that's super important. Outsourcing everything to potential future adversaries is a dumb move. People here are already suggestion Microsoft weaponise Windows updates against Russian society. > Resiliency in IXPs More interchange points means less choke points and single failure modes. We are moving the wrong way in Europe and the US with greater "AS Hegemony" > Humans: determination of network operators in Ukraine to keep the Internet running. Deskilling is a problem in Europe and the US as we rely more and more on "cloud" services. Having sysop skills distributed among the population, and a culture in which sysadmins are well paid and respected is a social technical resilience.