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I have the feeling that any day now I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll find out that there just isn’t internet anymore because somebody did something fro
by develatio 2y ago
I have the feeling that any day now I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll find out that there just isn’t internet anymore because somebody did something from a hotel room in the middle of nowhere with a raspberry pi connected to a wifi hotspot of a nearby coffee shop.
- Suppafly 2y agoReminds me of the dorms in college where the internet would get messed up because someone would plug in a random router from home that would hand out junk dhcp ip addresses. It's like that but for the whole world.
- sentientslug 2y agoSounds like BGP…
- deisteve 2y agoeven worse, the raspberry pi, tripped, fell, and burst into flames for no good reason.
- WeLostMcguffin 2y ago[flagged]
- wslh 2y agoAny connection to the recent "White House asks agencies to step up internet routing security efforts" [1] is purely coincidental. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482087
- neuralkoi 2y agoA significant amount of stuff is indeed held up by hopes and prayers [0], but by design, the internet was built to be robust [1]. In this case the scope was limited to .mobi. [0] https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_about_design_goals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Debate_about_design_go...