alt Hacker NewsFBI agents show up at a few dozen major datacenters with bolt cutters?
Half the internet goes down by accident when AWS or Cloudflare have a big issue every few years.
FBI agents show up at a few dozen major datacenters with bolt cutters?
Half the internet goes down by accident when AWS or Cloudflare have a big issue every few years.
Yes it would not be hard to take down a few data centers or services (just seize their domain) but that’s not remotely close to completely turning off the Internet. There are millions of servers on the U.S. Internet outside of major data centers.
We also run tons of crucial stuff over commercial links thanks to encryption. Taking Internet trunks offline would disrupt most domestic functions of government, for example.