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by CJefferson
3567 days ago
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Here's one way: * Find a couple of remote security holes in Windows and Android, maybe iOS and Macs as well (Linux would be good too, as lots of servers run Linux and have big bandwidth). * Write a self-propagating worm which uses your holes to infect a large chunk of machines currently attached to the internet. * Set your worm so, after an hour or so it starts hammering the root servers. That mess would be almost impossible to sort out, particularly if you were clever about the traffic you created do it was hard to filter. The only reason I can think no-one would do this is it's MAD -- no-one's internet would work, why would Russia or China or the US want to take down everyone's internet? |
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No-one's "internet" would work except for states that had a backup network. In the event of war such a tool would be useful, imagine the panic, chaos.
Another situation could be a major power trying to destabilise another's economy, fiscal warfare?