How to destroy the Internet!

[oilyfan]

http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet

Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet?

We did some digging, and guess what: With enough effort, the entire thing can be shattered. Physically. Completely. Here's how to kill the net.

Fascinating look at how the Internet could be destroyed, in not so much the actual topic but how it describes the physical workings of the Internet.

[bc-chris]

think of all the extra work we'd get done without calgarypuck!!!!

[Methanolic]

Meh. No big deal. I finished it during the "May Long".

[ricosuave]

really interesting, OP thanks for posting it.

[freedogger]

One big solar event is all that's needed.

[Northendzone]

Wouldn't removing all of the porn pretty much do the same thing?

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

Wouldn't removing all of the porn pretty much do the same thing?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Don't even joke about that...not funny, not funny at all.

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

Wouldn't removing all of the porn pretty much do the same thing?

Not possible. There is simply too much porn to simply remove it all.

When the world ends in 2012 all that will remain will be porn.

[Saint Troy]

I thought typing Google into Google destroys the internet.

[CaptainCrunch]

So hire a team of 10,000 mercenaries to cut the cables that they've conveniently put in the article. Then fire a nuke into each of the cities listed.

Then for the final kill stroke detonate 4 or 5 high yield nuclear weapons in orbit to shred all non shielded consumer electronics.

Then open up my store with an exclusive license to sell lite-brites and etch a sketches. The mercenaries would probably cost you a 100 million. The nukes more so, maybe use conventional ammonium nitrate bombs.

Doesn't sound too hard.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

Wouldn't removing all of the porn pretty much do the same thing?

Removing all the porn wouldn't destroy the internet, it would just destroy the point of it.

[drewboy12]

Imagine how much the sale of porn would sky rocket....

[llama64]

I thought you just needed to send two trucks in opposite directions through the internet tube.

This article is great, thanks OP! One of the things that always causes my head to shake is when people yatter on about the "newness" of the internet, or more recently "the cloud".

The internet isn't some virtual space that exists in the ether... it's made of real, physical stuff. And I'm pretty sure the root servers are old 8086's running out of Al Gore's basement linked via token ring.