2026-10-27 06:11 UTC
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop Yes, and hackers unassisted by AI could shut it down, too. Not permanently, and probably not all at once, but large portions could be cut-off for hours to days, repeatedly.
Securing the exterior gateway protocols which control routing of traffic between autonomous systems, the thousands of large networks which collectively form the internet, remains an interesting field of ongoing research. The greatest obstacles involved are not technical, but rather, political and economic.
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@frobozz@tty0.social 2026-10-27 06:18
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop A whole service provider, a country, or a region gets cut-off for a few hours, maybe a day, here and there, all the time, usually by mistake. Sometimes, it's traffic to just one server that gets rerouted to a compromised network a continent away, for interception. There's no reason why a large, coordinated effort could cause the same problems, globally.