To: TruBluKentuckian
Attacking Level 3 will REALLY bring the Internet down because Level 3 is a HUGE "backbone" provider of data transmission on the Internet. It they take down Level 3, it could literally take down much of the Internet in eastern Asia and Europe, too.
150 posted on
10/21/2016 1:28:38 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
151 posted on
10/21/2016 1:29:09 PM PDT by
CJ Wolf
(just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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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