That an attack on the servers hosted out on the Internet can be seen as taking the internet down? Now if there were a large scale attack on the NAP's, and/or Routers, then yes you could take a large chunk of the Internet offline. What amazes me is how pointless it all is, the traffic from the offending locations is easy to refuse (after it is tracked down) and causes a 1 or 2 day headache for some poor geek in a dark room. Sure for business it may mean that their profit projections for the year are now off by a few dollars, but in whole, buisness is not hurt NEARLY as much as they would like you to think.
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That an attack on the servers hosted out on the Internet can be seen as taking the internet down?
Now if there were a large scale attack on the NAP's, and/or Routers, then yes you could take a large chunk of the Internet offline.
What amazes me is how pointless it all is, the traffic from the offending locations is easy to refuse (after it is tracked down) and causes a 1 or 2 day headache for some poor geek in a dark room.
Sure for business it may mean that their profit projections for the year are now off by a few dollars, but in whole, buisness is not hurt NEARLY as much as they would like you to think.