How to destroy the Internet?

I believe many people have had super dreams of destroying the earth and saving the world, and many have threatened to destroy the internet. When talking and laughing, we will wonder if someone can truly destroy the internet? In fact, this can be achieved physically.

　　Without a doubt, if you really destroy the internet, it will become a feat of terrorism in the history of mankind, and it also means to declare war on the countries of the world.Therefore, consider the following content as an ideological experiment.

First, we should not regard the Internet as invisible. In fact, it is composed of a large number of metals, plastics and optical fibers. It is global, just as a machine monster embraces the whole earth. So we are looking for the material basis of the network, crossing the ocean and land to find out what to do.

　　There is no general switch on the internet, no self-destruction button, and it will not be affected by power outages. Because of its excellent design and constant exploration and improvement, the Internet is almost indestructible. Even if you cut down most of the data in a fiber-optic network, the remaining data will still be transmitted, and the transmission path can be automatically re-confirmed to ensure smooth connection between the Chinese mainland and countries.

Alan mauldin, an expert at Internet infrastructure analysis company telegeography, gave several recent examples:

In February, two of the three optical cables leading to East Africa were cut off in the Red Ocean. This damages data communication between users in East Africa, but in most cases cross-strait communications have multiple optical cables. In the past five to six years, there have been many damages to optical cables in the Mediterranean, the Red Ocean, and the South China Sea. Last year, the Japanese tsunami destroyed a large number of optical cables, but with a variety of repair options, the Internet connection with Japan was not significantly affected.

But like other things on Earth, if it is built, it can always be destroyed. That is to say, with enough effort, you can completely destroy the internet like a tree, as long as you know where to start cutting.

　　Cut Optical Cable

The Internet exists due to thousands of meters of heavy and worn-out cable connections. The long submarine cable connects various continents and makes the world a whole. As mentioned earlier, optical fiber cables can be connected to each other. When one is disconnected, the other will start the task. What if we cut them all?

The Internet is a network with cables. Home computers, office equipment, and foreign servers are all connected through these cables. After these connections are cut off, the network will not be able to communicate across the ocean. The Internet will immediately break down.

These submarine optical cables are sometimes disguised or partially buried. But sometimes it is exposed to the beach like an abandoned surfboard. For those optical cables buried under the beach, you can use such a line tracker to find the specific location.

Although the exact location of many optical cables and their landing points are not public, they can always be seen in some famous coastal and lively towns. The following three optical cable points, according to telegeography, if damaged, the consequences will be very serious. The destruction of a point can only lead to deceleration and obstruction, but it is not completely paralyzed. However, sites on the other side of the ocean will immediately become inaccessible, and many other websites will be too slow to use. The Internet will still be chaotic and slow, but this is a good start after all.

From top to bottom are mastic beach in Long Island, manahawkin in New York and Tuckerton in New York.

These sites connect the East Coast of the United States and Western Europe, and are some of the world's most dense and important infrastructure points. With this removed, we have gone deep into the Internet's guts. The global economy will also collapse, and Internet communication between the Chinese mainland will also be interrupted. You cannot send emails to foreign friends or order goods on foreign websites.

　　There are other locations that can most weaken Internet connections:

Singapore

Egypt (Mediterranean and Red Sea)

Southwestern United Kingdom

Tokyo

Hong Kong

South Florida

Sicily

Mumbai

Chennai

Now, the Internet is not a global whole, and every continent and island are isolated. The most basic feature of the Internet is the real-time circulation of data on a global scale. Now everything is over.

　　Destroy root server

Domain Name input is actually the result of converting obscure IP fields. For example, the IP address of "Google.com" is 74.125.228.37. But there are thousands of websites, and who can remember the IP addresses of their residences.

At present, there are 13 root domain name servers in the world, named "A" to "M" respectively, responsible for IP address domain name resolution. If these machines are paralyzed, you can only remember numbers if you want to access the Internet. So how can we find and destroy these servers? Like the previous optical cables, these servers also have public secrets.

For example, if we want to destroy the "K" server, it is run by a ripe NCC company. Go to its website and use Google Maps to find the server location. But if you want to go in, it will be difficult. It is conceivable that its guard is doson Yan. The m server is run by the wide project in Seoul. Their website will tell you the address. This Google Street View is obvious.

The guard is mainly used to prevent strangers from walking around or clicking the wrong button. In fact, the destruction of a key Internet building and the destruction of those ordinary buildings are no different. Repeat the preceding actions based on the form.

　　Damage data center

　　

So far, we have cut off the optical cable and the information cannot be transmitted worldwide. In this way, Japan has become an isolated island. In addition, the root server is damaged, and the network address becomes a password number that cannot be parsed. The next step is to destroy the Internet: blow up the boxes that are still connected together.

The data center is an inconspicuous building with servers that let us browse websites, send and receive emails, and chat games. These buildings are usually very tall, because they are not designed for people, so most of them have no windows. The houses with machines are usually dark and kept low so that the machines can run normally. But for those who want to access the Internet, they are crucial. Through them, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) can connect to other parts of the Internet.

Building at No. 60 Hudson Street in New York City is an important hub of the global Internet:

The fifth layer has 9th, which is a gathering place for local, national, and global multi-layer optical fiber cables. Here, the servers, storage data, and network devices of each carrier are connected together, just like the series of optical interfaces and coaxial cables connected to other networks through a series of connection boards. The physical center of the Internet is essentially a huge Ethernet switch.

If this layer or the building can be damaged, the connection in the whole region will be broken, and Internet connections around the world will also be affected. Not only is the website erased, but the data stored by some companies in the data center disappears. For example, all the photos or songs you upload will no longer exist.

There are a lot of data centers around the world, and cracking the Internal Gear will cause the network to no longer expand outward.Currently, there are nine hosted data centers in China, two in Beijing, four in Shanghai, and one in Chengdu, Zhejiang, and Shenzhen.

Now the data has been completely frozen. All roads, bridges, and traffic indicators are destroyed, and data cannot be anywhere. The rest are some local networks. They are networks, but they are no longer the internet. So far, the Internet has been successfully destroyed. The game is over.

From the above we can see that the Internet is powerful and fragile.Of course, no one can attack all nodes on the Earth's Internet at the same time. Even if thousands of individual teams do this, the repair speed may exceed the damage speed. Our goal is not to truly destroy the internet, but to see the complexity and fun of the Internet infrastructure..

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