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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:36, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0600 |
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> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. |
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>> > |
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>> I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the |
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>> computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? |
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>> If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it |
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>> is still working. Sort of anyway. |
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>> Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a |
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>> internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. |
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> To switch off the internet, you don't switch off the computers on the |
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> internet. You switch off the routers that drive the internet. |
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You don't need to turn off the routers. |
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Just inject BGP poison. |
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I just re-found the news: |
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197019/Update_Report_sounds_alarm_on_China_s_rerouting_of_U.S._Internet_traffic |
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The article I linked above contains 2 incidents: |
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The first incident rerouted traffic for a huge swath of Internet, |
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including traffic destined to Microsoft, the Office of the USA SecDef, |
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and others. |
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The second incident blocked traffic for some sites, notably Twitter, |
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Yahoo, and Facebook. |
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BOTH incidents happened because of BGP poisoning. BOTH incidents |
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affected traffic FROM the USA to destinations IN the USA even though |
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the poisoning happened from OUTSIDE of the USA. |
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The country where both incidents happened (in these cases, China) is |
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not essential. ANY country with a BGP router connected to the backbone |
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can easily poison other international backbone routers. Especially if |
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said country has a HUGE International bandwidth. |
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Rgds, |
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