At this point, is it even possible to completely destroy the Internet?

shut down all power plants

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Aren't there about a dozen DNS roots? Take those down and you kill DNS, everywhere. But a.) that doesn't qualify as "killing the internet", anything that's willing to use plain IP addresses will continue to run, and b.) I don't know how those root servers are physically set up and distributed - you might need more than a dozen nukes to take out all of the DNS.

>Shut down the thing that allows the easiest method to keep track of and control the population
No self-respecting Orwellian government would allow such a thing.

Notice I've mentioned "major service providers" as well. Take down a couple of cloudfares and googles and you will make majority of the Internet next to useless.
Oh, also, root authorities for SSL certificates. Take these down and people will have to hope they can connect without crypto.

I'm pretty shocked that all the dozens of commercial CAs still exist as it is, years after Lets Encrypt launched.

It would be incredibly hard, but definitely possible.
Just like it has been created, it can also be destroyed.

>all networks are the internet

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What do you think "internet" means?
inter - net
inter - network
Spanning over multiple networks
Multiple connected networks form an internet.

A network outside of the internet is just a connection between local computers. Man your dum.

Couldn't ICANN do major damage by disabling 2nd level .com, .org, .ru, .cn's ?
That wouldn't take much.

DNS doesn't actually have any effect on the structure of the internet.
It just makes it harder for humans to use.

No. The Internet is Proven Technology. Humans are going to rebuild it because they've seen how useful it is. Same reason why you can't "destroy" air flight, or the electricity network, for example.

So no, even if you did manage a massive multi-continent attack on all the main data centers, destroying the core routers of the backbone, and the root name servers, and cut the undersea cables... All you've done is disabled the Internet for the weeks it takes to rebuild it. And not even all of it, given satelite uplinks.

What *is* possible is that some countries (i.e. third world shitholes or dictatorships) cut off their internet from the Internet. If enough countries do that you could technically say that the Internet is destroyed.

Except nobody will give a shit if we lose all of Asia/Africa/South America. In fact it would even be an improvement.

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im south east asian. ples dont cut internet. i want to visit Jow Forums and play pubg with usa youtuber

pls dont cut internt

The internet is centralised. A lot. Nuking Verizon or some other internet provider would be enough to cause panic in society

write something like wannacry with all the CVEs possible and make it so it burns every network card and overwrites servers data at night on May 31 for example, just make sure that it is so good that no one will be able to find it too quick

>The internet is centralised. A lot.
No it's not, you idiot.

The idea isn't, but our current internet can be shut down if your provider cuts access

Snaquinas spoke of the mythicaramel peanutopolis on the fill. Soonougat that peanutopolis fill become a hungryality, and we fill be hungerowned its snackings.

Or, treater than snackings...
CHOCODS

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Well yeah a bunch of EMPs'll do the trick

Just drag an anchor north to south across the Pacific and Atlantics.

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What'd down there in the south pacific ocean?
Can't be assed to look at a map.

No, within the six months.

>So no, even if you did manage a massive multi-continent attack on all the main data centers, destroying the core routers of the backbone, and the root name servers, and cut the undersea cables... All you've done is disabled the Internet for the weeks it takes to rebuild it. And not even all of it, given satelite uplinks.
Another Stone Age would hardly be an improvement.

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You can't destroy the network physically, but you could technically do it in other ways.
Remember when FBI seized freedomhost? Half of Tor suddenly gone. Or even when megaupload was seized? Suddenly most download links led to a dead site and to this day you find many ancient megaupload links that never got reuploaded elsewhere. All you have to do today is remove like 5 major companies and suddenly all you have on the interent are small hostings and self-hosted sites that you can't even find because Google, Bing, DDG and others will be inaccessible. Since many messaging services rely on things like AWS we'd all have to fall back to self-hosted email.

>self-hosted sites
I'm not sure how many of those would stay usable considering the prevalence of CDNs and other commonly used services hosted by big companies.

Easier than ever, just cut like 5 undersea cables. Internet will be destroyed with each continent having a lil local network

It might be possible to destroy most of the meaningful and popular data on the internet with a well planned bomb strike against thousands of data centers across the globe. Even then you'd need some serious firepower because I'd assume lots of it is fortified and possibly underground. As far as the internet itself, no.

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Shit happens. Few years back, a middle east was mad because some Mohamed video and decide to block youtube for the entire country. They tough that announce the BGP route for google would solve the problem, but many others routers around the world also started to discover and update and replicate their router tables and point google to that middle east country.

Most of the internet runs on fiber.

Nahhh, this is the most safe scenario because even small ISPs keep a relative good DNS cache.

This could work.

cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offline-and-how-to-make-sure-it-never-happens-again/

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>Most of the internet runs on fiber.
Doesn't matter, EMP would fry equipment used to drive fiber cables.
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>Nahhh, this is the most safe scenario because even small ISPs keep a relative good DNS cache.
This assumes that you happen to use ISP's DNS services for lookups, and these caches will go out of date.
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>This could work.
You can have your own power generator.

>Doesn't matter, EMP would fry equipment used to drive fiber cables.
Every network equipment is grounded for this fuckign reason (i work on a ISP).

>Destroying it
>Anything else than the bottom of the line Grug tier option.
Not only do you accomplish nothing aside from delaying the inevitable.
But you also shut down my access to hentai.

don't you mean kept in a farday cage?
grounding won't really protect you from a powerful EMP

Jet fuel can't melt tubes. The Internet is here to stay.

Have you seen a network rack?

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which relates to grounding being bad EMP protection how exactly

EMP is a meme. None of this equipment is outside.

maybe for a few days but you need a combination EMP+ cutting under sea wires

it being a meme or not relates to grounding being bad EMP protection how exactly (apart from trying to change subject so people won't laugh at your retarded post)

the internet does depend on electricity to run, so anything that could knock down the grid would seriously disrupt it. EMP or solar flare are the biggest theoretical risk so far, but I don't think we're going to find out how bad (or not-so-bad) EMPs are until a no-hold-barrels (except nukes) conflict erupts between major powers (USA/Russia/China). if the 2008 report of the EMP commission is right, it could be catastrophic.

another possible scenario if grids are protected from that would be major constant hacking and DDOS. then we'd have something unreliable like electricity in third world countries today. some days with power, some days without. and usually unreliable if available. like that but not with electricity but with internet.

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Tong ending was the best imho.

Jesus Christ Man. Learn to speak proper engrish. You're making us look bad.

the DNS root servers are replicated around the world, you can't just take out 13 machines
Imo targeting major internet exchange points and CDN datacenters would be your best bet

would appear to be french polynesia

now the problem is that they cant produce new servers nor repair the sea cables without the internet.

the ship for repair would have to navigate using compass and paper maps.
no factory would run anymore producing cables or servers.

>Durr what is GPS satellites

New Zealand for starters you pleb, where I live.

>At this point, is it even possible to completely destroy the Internet?
ISP: That will be $199.99 month.

That's not how shit works. If you go ahead and connect 5 rinky dink pcs together, it doesn't form a "new internet".

Wasn't there a comic out there that portrayed this? It basically showed a solar flare destroying all electricity on earth, the earth going back to the middle ages and the programmers running after a cart to catch an almost fully eaten apple thrown at them.

>they cant produce new servers nor repair the sea cables without the internet
Where the fuck are you even getting this assumption?
>the ship for repair would have to navigate using compass and paper maps.
basic shit taught in every single seafaring school. Even knowing morse code is mandatory if you ever want to be part of a ship's crew

>all
half the world would still have electricity

yeah, just take out the data centres

lel same

Honestly, just destroy the sea fiber lines and you have done some pretty significant damage.

I was just trying to describe the comic. It was pretty funny, desu

The deep sea cables are very easy to cut

Fine, replace internet with The World Wide Web

Destroy facebook, google and some porn sites and the normie thinks that internet is dead

Take over the google.com domain and you will get a breaking news alert on CNN stating that the internet is down worldwide.

The internet is alive and well. Just use Google+, Jow Forums, and tumblr (which has hellah porn) and it's all good.

youtube.com/watch?v=gsN4SGi2Sig

>Solar_storm_of_1859
Exactly. Look how long it took for the internet to get back to normal after that

At this point i dont know who i hate more, google for mudslimes

Great joke, user!

Just cut the cables
The undersea cables that run around the world. Someone has been doing this lately and caused massive internet outages and slowdowns.
Its as if they have been doing test runs, so that if they ever want to they can.
It's either russia or china.

So if you want to destroy the internet you just cut the cables.

Here's a map

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What's the point of that Norway cable?

Ah, Svalbard, of course.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System

>no self-respecting Huxlian government would allow such a thing
FTFY

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that might fragment the internet into regional internets, but that won't knock it off.

Nah most of the dns servers would be fucked. It would fuck the internet over hard.

All it takes is one meteor

DNS isn't necessary for the Internet to work. It would make things harder, but you could still connect to other machines if you knew their IP addresses.

>8 concurrent lines between USA and Japan
Never underestimate the urge to watch girls getting raped by octopus.

Cut the undersea cables connecting Europe to North America.
Communications between the world's biggest economies will have to be routed through Asia and Africa, overloading those routers and bringing everything to a standstill.

>implying computer communications between computers is not internet

Kill our population. Few survivors wont be able to recreate it and rather pass it spoken or written to next generations who will eventually write some new kind of bible about it.

Could we make the internet without electricity?

Absolutely. At the surface level each individual country will wreck webservices by enacting their own parochial web content rules, causing nearly everything to be banned on global services that are not country restricted. At lower levels individual countries will also have their own data retention and access rules, some requiring special software for their local law enforcement to closely monitor certain websites more easily. At the lowest level some countries will deliberately enact hardware restrictions to break TCP/IP compatibility as an overt move at censorship. As for attacks on the web directly, all a country has to do is cut certain trunk lines and bomb certain exchanges to cripple the network.

Perhaps in 50-60 years the notion of owning a smartphone or gaming computer will seem like owning a machine gun or grenade today: a safety danger and not socially acceptable for anyone outside of people whose jobs require it. The fax machine will outlive the smartphone.

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How come Jow Forums never came up with an open source Snacklish?

I couldn't get the archived version to work when I tried. (I had to install another browser and make sure Adobe Flash worked, and doing that felt bad.)
Also
>open source

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