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Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the millions-of-voices-suddenly-cried-out-in-terror dept.

GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware recently interviewed Dino A. Dai Zovi, a former member of Sandia National Labs' IDART (the guys who test the security of national agencies). Although most of the interview is focused on personal computer security, they asked him about L0pht's claim in 1998 if the Internet could still be taken down in 30 minutes given the advances on both the security and threat sides. He said that the risk was still true."

3 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. kdawson article? by kj_kabaje · · Score: 0, Troll

    Checking to see if this is a kdawson article... Nope. Read on panic mf-er. Panic!

  2. summing up by godrik · · Score: 1, Troll

    the only two statement of the interview:

    -"I can not say anything"

    -"macs are great"

    ...

  3. Sugar and air. by PinchDuck · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just unplug the phone line into my DSL modem and blow into it. Then, for good measure, I pour in some powdered sugar. Then I blow into it again. The sugar and air hit the pneumatic pumps. The air acts like an embolism, forcing the pumps to work like mad. The sugar gets stuck in the compression rings, shredding them and dropping the bit pressure to the rest of the internet. *Poof*, there goes the network.