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When the Entire Internet Seems to Break At Once
http://www.theatlantic.com ^ | Oct 21 2016 | Robinson Meyer and Adrienne Lafrance

Posted on 10/21/2016 9:41:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9

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To: RayChuang88

Level 3 is freaking huge. They have reserve bandwidth beyond your imagination, and they have some very smart people running it. Their infosec is literally military grade (They run milnet for the DoD IIRC).

Hacking Dyn is kid stuff in comparison. It happened to be a convenient single point of failure due to companies going cheap and outsourcing their DNS to save a few bucks and the bad guys exploited it. You can be sure that IT guys at the major sites are going to make darn sure it never happens again.


161 posted on 10/21/2016 2:18:20 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: ncdrumr

Yep. A surprise is in store.


162 posted on 10/21/2016 2:35:54 PM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: Vermont Lt; TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Put nothing past the globalist fascists.


163 posted on 10/21/2016 3:00:13 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Gideon7
That is why my desktop computer, laptop, Chromebook, iPad and iPhone use these DNS server addresses:

64.6.64.6 (Preferred--Verisign DNS)
8.8.4.4 (Secondary--Google Public DNS)

164 posted on 10/21/2016 5:29:49 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: hoagy62

Good observation.

Well isn’t it nice that no one out there is alarming the public because we might be the victim of Isis attacks or whatever terrorists are in those countries.

Let’s elect someone with a casual attitude toward security, eh?


165 posted on 10/21/2016 5:33:08 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Tell me again who took over the internet just a few short weeks ago? Well, it isn’t the U.S. anymore!


166 posted on 10/22/2016 2:15:18 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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