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L0pht testified before Congress claiming that they could shut down the Internet globally in 30 minutes back in 1998. If I recall correctly, it was through attacks against BGP/BGMP. I can't find a non-broken source link, though.
Should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY
I wish they would choose Friday. I could use a day to take a break.
and if nothing else it makes a great excuse for sys/network admins. "I can't get online!" "Yeah anonymous took down the internet"
Unless they keep their attack up / the DNS root down long enough to make cache timeout, this should not be noticed by any "normal" people.
Why attack DNS? BGP is more vulnerable and receives less scrutiny (remember Pakistan bringing youtube down for the entire world via a misconfigured censorship attempt?). Go look at the references from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking for some horror stories.
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L0pht testified before Congress claiming that they could shut down the Internet globally in 30 minutes back in 1998. If I recall correctly, it was through attacks against BGP/BGMP. I can't find a non-broken source link, though.
Should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY
Not only would it be basically impossible to take down the DNS servers even if they had large participation, but there will be essentially no participation since most main 'anonymous' sites/leaders are telling people to have nothing to do with it.
This is just nonsense intended to drive up hit counts. I really don't think a person needs to be very technical to realize this is nonsense. Most people aren't rocket scientists, but would have the sense to call bullshit pretty quickly if I claimed I was going to test a working warp drive on Friday. I've never understand why computers seem so complicated and strange to people that the same common sense and critical thinking that makes it obvious I don't really have a warp drive don't seem to apply.
Unless they keep their attack up / the DNS root down long enough to make cache timeout, this should not be noticed by any "normal" people.
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As cynical as this point sounds, you may be on to something. We know that the FBI infiltrated LulzSec...so who knows if this may be something they are doing.
As godwinesque as this may sound, this wouldn't be the first time group A does something bad just to be able to blame group B in order to receive the powers it craves.
At this point I think it's just FBI/CIA trying to troll us and get more cyber-laws passed.
This is not the sort of thing Anonymous does, they've been careful not to aggravate the public and make clear it is the elite and not the common man that is their nemesis.
We also know for a fact that US intelligence agencies have infiltrated and have been in control of many Anonymous operations.
Not too hard to see that this will be a test run of whether intelligence agencies can shut down the internet.