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What is a tip, fact, or piece of information that you want to share? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

At any point in time the entire internet is one finger slip away from breaking or being hijacked.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

How do we know it hasn't already been hijacked

No one would publically disclose that if they did

And its easier to hijack the Internet than you think

You just need to poison the information that is avalible to manipulate the right audience to your end goal and people already do that

Just look into the "kochtopus" for example

https://dividednolonger.com/kochtopus/

https://prezi.com/5xzibopikc3a/ifgs-kochtopus-mapping-the-influence-of-koch-cash/

Now find similar groups to the kochtopus and see if they are interconnected with other groups

Find those and you'll find the people who secretly hijack the Internet

What you need to dismantle are those groups

Help bring them into public knowledge so more people are aware of them

The more people are aware of them the more they will share

And the more people are aware of them the more these groups power will waver as people begin to become aware of their manipulation

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I am talking more about finger slips than actual malicious intent. Like when Facebook broke themselves or when Turkey broke YouTube for the whole world for a couple hours.

There are ways of detecting it like using rpki to reject poisoned prefixes or BGPmon to track the origin of prefixes or as an after action use Ripe BGPlay to see how a prefix was rerouted.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

At any point, someone could be thrown through a wall and crush the internet box (I am talking about that IT Crowd sketch - so good!:-P).

[-] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

There is always an XKCD

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