Good lesson from nature: Cockroaches (and their equivalents) will outlive every other species. Seriously though, even if someone took down the "internet", there would be small pockets of connectivity, and those would somehow connect to other pockets. Even with no major effort, all these pockets would soon hook up as a loose mesh to establish bigger meshes, eventually restoring the internet (or at least some form of it) </MotoBaridi> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Why go after the internet as a whole, try shutting down the online equivalent of cockroaches, thepiratebay.org, whole governments have tried shutting it down with no luck...
On 4/27/09, MotoBaridi <motobaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, given enough time, GOOGLE will learn everything about the internet, and much more about the wetware packages (read humans) so dependent on it. Then all you need is a brilliantly evil nerd to execute that crucial script to get everything going. Either that, or GOOGLE becomes sentient and decides to shut all systems down.
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all Saich, know that, given unlimited time and money, nothing is impossible (except maybe getting into heaven :-). As mentioned by Michuki, one would need to launch a multi target attack on the various bits and pieces that make the internet what it is.
So, why not start at the source? The root name servers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver>seem like a nice ripe target ready for picking. However, there is a small problem; the 13 root name servers are heavily redundant, HEAVILY! So, for you to take out maybe 2 of them, you would probably need both Conficker and Storm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet>, maybe plus the new iWork trojan.
And/or, you could target the way the DNS works, by getting Karumanzila to create a potent concotion for DNS Poisoning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning>. And while your minions are furiuosly banging away at the DNS, why not get your trusted assistant to listen in on the security companies by hacking the cell phone network. It has been done before<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5280>, surely, it can be done again yes?
So far we have the logical transportation system of the net creaking under the load, next step is to target the physical hardware. Get the contacts of the major routers of the major backbone providers and send them a nicely packaged PDoS< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_denial-of-service_attack#Permanent_...
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I could go on and on... But the best advice is, use the unlimited time and money to create the ultimate evil AI software (read Skynet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29>), continously learning how the internet works and how best to defend/attack it. The major point here is that it has to keep learning. Most of the stuff mentioned above have a very high likelihood of not working coz they are old methods, plus there are a lot of crazy guys out there who want them not to work.
Then when the AI app is done, put it in a robotic spaceship and send it to the sun's core, where no one can get to it, and when the time is right, have it hack the sun. The ensuing chaos will provide a nice backdrop for it to 'drop' the internet. On second thoughts, dropping Facebook, Twitter and Google would probably cause the same chaos.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM, saich <saiched@gmail.com> wrote:
lollest ati carrier pigeons and smoke and drums...... There are a lot of crazy guys out there who are pondering on this question and in order to stop them u have to be ahead of the game and think like them.That's what Proactive Internet Investigation is all _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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