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It was designed to survive a nuclear strike, but since the TCP/IP stack offers no protection against a backhoe or a shovel cutting the cables, I'm skeptical abo

• rvnx 2y ago
  It sounds like a mastermind plan, but in reality it's a consequence of a global intelligence working together on the same project over xx years. It was certainly not designed with that much hindsight, otherwise we would never have had the infamous BGP-spoofing attacks (which were basic and easy at the time), the ARP-spoofing, not enough IPv4, etc. Internet has iteratively evolved to be reliable, as each iteration has improved on top of the previous one. And this is not due to geniuses, this is due to sys/netadmins who want to sleep at night more, so they are forced to choose and operate reliable techs.
  • surfingdino 2y ago
    It's a great way to sell it and it worked. Fortunately, the product (the internet) works even better that the slogan used to sell it. One derivative claim, "the internet treats censorship and routes around it" is not used much these days, but I do remember it actually being close to reality, for a brief moment in time.
• edm0nd 2y ago
  These days its more like an anchor from a ship cutting a sea cable. Interesting to think about in the event of something like WW3, would these be some of the first things severed?
  • surfingdino 2y ago
    Absolutely. The are the spine of the world's communication, cut them and no more global internet.