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...Until they switch to a bandwidth exhaustion attack.
by icehawk 1y ago
...Until they switch to a bandwidth exhaustion attack.
- stevenhuang 1y agoTrue, saturating all routes to a host is quite feasible, but with sufficient redundancy (say with multiple PTP wireless links, which can be done quite cheaply) you'd have to knock the Internet out in such a huge area we'd be talking about WW3. There's no argument that a private line is ideal for critical infrastructure, but if they must make do, there are ways to make it work.
- mschuster91 1y agoPeople managed to shoot Wikipedia off the Internet as recently as 2019. Anyone not behind one of the major CDNs can be targeted and taken down. And bandwidth-exhausting a few routers in front of the target is certainly possible, it's just not profitable for cybercriminals - but for a nation-state? No problem at all to muster a few terabit/s of capacity for them.