Originally posted by Mindset
Or you could just tell us.
Google =
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273294,00.html
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/estonia-recovers-massive-denial-service-attack-188
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6665195.stm
Cyberthugs possibly working at the behest of the Kremlin have launched Internet attacks on the Baltic nation of Estonia, according to European media reports.
Government ministries, banks, newspapers and political parties in the tiny nation of 1.1 million people have had to block access to their Web sites from other countries in the face of the crippling directed-denial-of-service attacks, in which tens of thousands of computers bombard Web servers with millions of useless requests for information.
The attacks began shortly after a week of riots in the capital, Tallinn, following the April 26 removal of a World War II Soviet soldier's statue from a public square. -end snip
Originally posted by Mindset
Or you could just tell us.
Estonia decided it wanted to move a soviet era statue to a less auspiscious location. this upset ethnic Russians, and started a heated Internet flame war.
a small group of young Russian nationalists orchestrated a "denial of service" attack against the estonian state. all financial and social services ground to a halt, all economic activity at all levels stopped. estonia essentially had to cut off all it's connections to the outside world to end the chaos.
this was a generally uncoordinated, unsustained and amature attack meant only to annoy, launched by teens. without the ability to respond to this type of attack, any interested party could attempt this against America, and information war is seen as the next real frontier.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
All of them? That involves facing down individual citizens, major corporations and other countries. I doubt many of those people are going to back down. The alternative is to just destroy all the servers in the US (still impossible) and then destroy all connections to the outside world (also impossible).You also can't keep the internet shut down. Servers built with 1970s era technology were just the size of a desk, they're much smaller and more powerful today. The internet would be knocked back to usenet levels but it would still exist unless Obama also destroys all connections between places in the US (cut all the phone lies, destroy all the satellites etc)
So basically to believe this is a threat of any sort you have to accept that Obama is going to crush the population US beneath his heel, wrecking the nation's entire infrastructure in the process. And really if you believe that then you have to wonder why he's passing laws and not rolling tanks across your lawn.
I understand that it would be extremely difficult to completely shut down the internet but would it really be that hard to deny the majority of the general, American populace internet access? I'm sure it wouldn't be to hard for a bill to pass that forces, private American internet providers to comply to government commands. Or would it? I'm not very knowledgeable with these things but if my cable company can deny me internet access at any time, the subject of this topic doesn't seem unrealistic