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How To Crash the Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sound-of-a-millions-memes-melting dept.

rudy_wayne writes "We know you can take down Web sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. We know that a government, like Egypt's, can shut down an entire country's Internet access. And, we thought we knew that you can't take down the entire Internet. It turns out we could be wrong. In a report from New Scientist, Max Schuchard, a computer science graduate student, and his buddies claim they've found a way to launch DDoS attacks on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network routers that could crash the Internet."

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  1. Image by tom17 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The stock photo in the article says "Where's the internet gone?" but it's just a picture of a couple of people using old computers.

    I often see things like this where they feel they HAVE to put a photo in, a meaningful photo to help get the point across. To help get this point across they put in captions to make it clear, but half the time they put ZERO effort in to actually finding a suitable image. For this one, they could have at least found a picture with someone with their arms up in despair at the interwebs being down. But no, just people playing games or something on flickery old CRT monitors, or something.

    You know what? This REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS. Back to you Tom.