• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    In case someone misinterpreted the meme: these are all single points of failure that can take down large parts of the internet.

    If a rouge state manages to take down any of these for a more then trivial amount of time, we would suffer enormous amount of financial damage

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      10 hours ago

      A rouge state? Are you referring to Cambodia China or some hypothetical martian nation?

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        17 hours ago

        I didn’t mean a specific state, I just wanted to imply that terrorists backed by a state - with the money and connections that encompasses - would have the means to do this.

        I currently don’t see any state that would wish to cripple the internet. That would hurt indiscriminately.

        Perhaps in the future, before a planned attack, to sow chaos. So China or Russia perhaps.

        Perhaps North Korea, but I don’t think they have the power or knowledge to do something like that and China would get mad.

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          14 hours ago

          Dude they were making a joke about how you put rouge state instead of rogue state. Rouge is a color in the red category sometimes used as a synonym to red.

          Though they missed a joke using the Khmer Rouge (effectively omnicidal communist Cambodia) and went for China instead.