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Shutting down the internets
Also, an unrelated thing, just in case someone might know: are there servers vital to the functioning to internet that solely reside in the USA? Or is everything distributed globally? I thought some naming/isp servers were only in the US, but now that I researched, it seems this hasn't been the case since 90's.
I'm not planning to ruin the internet, trust me, I just need this for a story I'm writing. I need the internet to crash in it, which could maybe happen if USA seceded from the rest of the world and cut all electronic contact, and all computer technology from US self-destructed, but I'm not sure if it's theoretically possible to shut down the internet anymore.
I'm not planning to ruin the internet, trust me, I just need this for a story I'm writing. I need the internet to crash in it, which could maybe happen if USA seceded from the rest of the world and cut all electronic contact, and all computer technology from US self-destructed, but I'm not sure if it's theoretically possible to shut down the internet anymore.
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https://www.quora.com/Could-a-rogue-government-in-the-US-disrupt-the-Internet-globally
"There was a time, of course, in the 1990s when it seemed as if Microsoft ran the Internet, when the company got into antitrust trouble with the United States Justice Department. But that was business control — to an extent. It was never technical control.
In 1993, John Gilmore, a freedom-of-speech activist and one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was quoted as saying, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
He was referring to the basic design of a computer network that was intended to have no central control and no single point of failure. There is no one plug to pull or server to block. That decentralized structure has created headaches for anyone trying to control communications in cyberspace." (quoted because paywall)
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/why-donald-trumps-call-to-close-up-the-internet-is-science-fiction/?_r=0
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-internet-ever-be-destroyed/
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I suppose cutting US out of the internet would make the rest pretty congested, but slower and slightly more unreliable connections are not aesthetically as pleasing as a huge boom-bang-crush.
(Interestingly, I did not run into a paywall for the NYTimes blog. It's free for non-US readers?)
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