It sure took them long enough to start working on it! We have thousands of attacks a day against US cyber-infrastructure and so far the government has done bupkiss.
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The article is silly
If the attack successfully took down the internet, a cyber-counterstrike might have been implemented by way of what means? harsh language?
Clearly, you don't
Clearly, you don't understand DNS. If the core DNS servers were downed, the domain lookup service would be trashed, making it impossible for individuals to make a URL into the IP needed for digital communication. All digital communication (IP included) would still work in intranets, as well as over the internet, even if it was much slower due to the origional attacks bandwidth usage. The only real effect would be the inability to resolve a domain name. This would not prevent the US from launcing attacks against a specific IP subnet.
He didn't say "if an attack
He didn't say "if an attack successfully took down all DNS servers", he said "if an attack successfully took down the internet", meaning as a whole. Virtually impossible, but we could assume someone disrupting communications on the transatlantic backbone enough so that most international communication is broken. I guess you could call that "taking down the internet". I don't think such a thing is possible merely by digital means, though. You'd probably have to actually physically damage the connection to achieve any noticeable effect.
Complete retardation. You
Complete retardation. You have to be kidding me.
"It sure took them long
"It sure took them long enough to start working on it!"
Don't mistake incompetence on their part for inaction.
Forget the cybercounter attack
Forget the cyber counterattack. The government knows where this is coming from. One smart bomb dropped on the right target will cause the vermin to think twice.
Yes, because hacking a
Yes, because hacking a computer is definitely the most heinous crime imagineable.
Ummm, "the government knows
Ummm, "the government knows where this is coming from"???
The government didn't see 16 suspicious-looking guys with Middle-Eastern accents, some of whom were already on watch lists, taking flying lessons and in some cases sharing an apartment with CIA informants...
And what is the "right target"?
One smart bomb where?? A Seattle suburb? San Diego? Washington DC??
If they had a bomb that smart, they'd have used it on Fallujah or Sadr City. Or Baghdad. Or anywhere in Iraq.
The only way they can protect themselves over the internet is to shut it down. Rest assured that if & when they decide to try that, it'll be for our own good and in the interests of national security - and anyone who tries to create or use any sort of underground, unscrutinized web will be considered potential terrorists and dealt with swiftly and without anyone hearing a peep about it.
I agree it is soooo unlikely
I agree it is soooo unlikely that a complete breakdown could be maintained, but if and when government decides to respond to internet disruption, i sure hope their computer guided bombs know where to go.
counter whom?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but a DDOS is a bit trickier to source. Wasn't this a zombie attack on a small scale? Small or large, it infers that zombie machines, perhaps my dopey neighbor who leaves his WiFi wide open, are the culprit. May I assume that the AF is smart enough to target the command of the zombies, not the zombies? My neighbor's pretty close-by--colateral damage is a bitch when it's 15 feet away.