• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    2 months ago

    What? The whole fuckin internet is the backup plan

    Like bro do you even BGP?

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        So Ivan Sabotageovich calls up someone who works at Level3

        Says “Hey broski I want you to start announcing bogus BGP routes”

        Guy who answers the phone says “What? Why would I do that?”

        Guy on the phone says “I’ll give you rubles”

        Guy who answers the phone says my brother in Christ I make $175k per year and I will get fired and they’ll fix it in about 25 minutes anyway, sorting out and fixing stuff like this is kind of why people like me are employed here and there are a lot of us watching what happens

        Guy on the phone says I can also give you TONS of unrefined crude oil and methane, or precision aircraft parts from the 1990s

        Guy who answers says I need to go now, good luck though

        Guy on the phone says blyat as the line goes dead

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      Have you seen what happens on the global interchange when just one cable gets interrupted? It’s absolute chaos. That’s all they want. They aren’t trying to absolutely isolate Internet from the US and it’s allies, we have all kinds of satellite backups for things like that.

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        I mean you are correct that things like this are a shit show if you are directly involved, but my point is that the wider world can continue fairly unimpeded. Unless they have some kind of magic backhoe that can cut every backbone cable all at once or something, I think the impact in terms of bringing the West’s telecommunications to its knees is going to be more or less nil.

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          All they need is to send subs around and attach charges ahead of time and blow them all at once. The problem is the time constraints of figuring out exactly where the cables got cut. I believe they have somewhat solved this, but I don’t think it’s bulletproof. The chaos is really the goal though.