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   dorpus, 27 Oct 2003 @ 2:47am

   
   

   Just attack the power grid

   As the east coast power outage illustrated, snapping one wire on an overloaded grid causes a chain reaction. If a group of 50 terrorists shorted out high-powered lines all over the country with tinfoil kites, won't America go black?
   

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   Tony Lawrence, 27 Oct 2003 @ 3:51am

   
   

   Internet down

   Worms like SoBig didn't bring the internet down, but they certainly slowed it down.
   
   What would happen if we had a half dozen like that at the same time?
   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, 27 Oct 2003 @ 8:51am

   
   

   Speaking of end of the world scenarios...

   What if drop reproduced? :O

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   Crapmaster T, 27 Oct 2003 @ 1:45pm

   
   

   No Subject Given

   You can't take down the entire internet. It's impossible. Mainly, because it doesn't actually exist. Not tangibly anyway. The only thing that could destroy the internet is a world wide dark age where the information about how things work is destroyed, along with all the fibre optic cable in the world, every computer, and every library with anything computer science related in it.
   Even then, there's a chance that two computer burried in a cave somewhere will still be able to talk to each other, making the whole exercise vague, and ill intentioned.
   The internet was specifically designed to withstand global nuclear devistation. I think we'll be able to survive the next ten, fifteen, or a thousand viruses.
   There's a word for this kind of journalism, if you could call it journalism at all.

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   Joe Schmoe, 27 Oct 2003 @ 7:49pm

   
   

   Re: No Subject Given

   That's the real genies' bottle aspect of the internet. The only thing that will bring it down is the [lack of] desire [on the whole of, now, humanity] to keep it around or it is replaced by something better. I don't know about the something better part, but just the thought of it (at this point) not existing is staggering. Even I make a portion of my income directly from its existence.

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   nocrap, 28 Oct 2003 @ 12:42am

   
   

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   Please don't spread that stupid notion that the Internet was designed to withstand nuclear attack. ****NO IT WAS NOT!***** Urban legend, now let's just move on as there is nothing to see here.

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