Just imagine the outrage if Russia is the reason that tiktok goes down
Russia has become the embarrassing relative you hate seeing at holiday gatherings.
In the Julia Roberts move “Leave the World Behind”, they mention a process of destroying a country. (I vaguely recall that the process was attributed to a real person.) One of the steps was to take down the internet. With lack of information chaos develops, and the country destroys itself.
Not really. We had a country before the internet, we’d just fall back on that. It would be painful but very doable.
i feel like taking down the internet is harder than it sounds. you could easily disrupt satellite, but the world will route around this… its actually designed for it.
they would have to poison dns or major routing points somehow.
Cut communication trunks to knock out the internet in wide areas should still be an option since storms cause those outages for non-wireless internet now. DDOS and other atracks can still overwhelm wireless communications.
But honestly it is unlikely that being technically possible would be as successful in practice as a widespread attack as most places have a lot of redundancy built in because these kinds of threats have been around for decades.
Nice plot, but with the presence of radio and television I see a hole in that plan
Or it begets a second renaissance where everyone get their noses away from screens (me included) and start fixing shit.
I can’t fix anything without a youtube tutorial
and start fixing shit.
First things first let’s get this Internet fixed.
Bark bark bark
Yes, this is really like a tiny dog barking its head off, because it’s convinced it can’t be harmed.
Russia and Putin have been embarrassing themselves for a while now.
Yeah?
And we’d retaliate. Which is why they haven’t done it. They didn’t shoot down the satellites in the cold war and they aren’t going to do it now unless they’ve decided the world without satellites is just so much better.
How is this news? China could nuke the West Coast tomorrow and the Canadians might invade Maine to secure a maple syrup monopoly! Actually, that’s more likely than anything else in this thread…
Maine should just be part of New Brunswick but your decorators could never match the right shade of pink
If Canada invades I’m fighting on their side. We suck so much and they’re polite.
LMAO, we’re a commin’ for that syrup 🇨🇦
I need to give you one more chance to retract, no questions asked. Before this conversation becomes a confrontation.
Edit: Just an American quoting a Canadian show to you. Nothing actually confrontational about it. In fact, everyone who responds with a quote from the same show gets an updoot.
How would they interfere with our elections without the Internet?
Mail?
Windows?
Nah. They had a falling out.
Well played. 5 points for tacosplease.
Russia said they’d take over Ukraine in three days.
Russia says a lot of shit.
Russia continuing to signal why it’s a good idea to take them out. Thanks, Russia!
I’d say it’s a funny way of admitting to the pipeline incident.
The same Russia that “indicated” the Ukraine special operation would take three days?
Lol
They’re afraid to use their glide bombs in Kursk because they’re not accurate enough to avoid hitting their own friendlies and they think they can hit a satellite moving ten of thousand + miles an hour in orbit!? lol
For real. People talking like Russia is going to jam GPS or something, while they can’t even jam GPS or RF well enough to prevent FPV drones from slamming in to their own people. I just saw a video of a Ukrainian FPV drone taking out a Russian EW platform that’s purpose built to counter drones for fucks sake.
Edit - oh. This statement was from Medvedev back in June. lol ok bro. How you gonna run those sub generators you need to fuck with those cables when all your diesel is currently burning off in a fucking epic conflagration? Your country is literally cooked rn.
The internet was literally created by the DoD to have a communication system that was resilient to foreign attacks. If one part of it goes down, it can still work with the parts that aren’t down. This is built into the design.
Nope. Usually this claim includes some reference to nuclear war, but the Internet was not designed to withstand attack. Arpanet was not designed with military applications primarily in mind.
Til, thank you
The Russians talk shit everyday. It ends up that it’s either something that they can’t technically do, as it is here, or something that would would result in having their ass handed to them.
This is both of them.
I really don’t think they have the capability, actually. They might be able to degrade the network, but I don’t think they would be able to actually physically destroy enough elements of the constellation to make it generally useless.
Not to mention, I’d be a bit shocked if the DoD doesn’t have some backups sitting quietly (as in: not broadcasting at the moment) in geosync. After all, it’s the first rule of government spending.
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