Do that persons who write that garbage doom articles know that unlike power grid internet today use optical glass fiber links, and all equipment that could potentially be damaged by solar storm electromagrnetic waves resides at least in buildings built from steel reinforced concrete that is enough to be a Faraday cage for sensitive devices. Really, most datacenters have even more serious means of protection.
Power greed is kind of wulnerable for solar storms because of length of conductors that act as an antenna large enough to receive that huge but slow electromagnetic splash. Internet infrastructure just don't have long enough conductors to produce any noticeable currents that could somehow interfere with it. Glass fibers are not conductive, so any solar storm is absolutlely nothing for them.
Even if power grid will be shut down (unlikely, since power grid today have much more protection circuits and devices than one of Carrington even times), internet datacenters will just switch to diesel generators for power, which are must have for anything that slightly resemble datacenter.
And no, there could not be weeks or months even if something goes absolutely wrong. In the worst case most power grid will be up and running within few days maximum.
So to turn internet off, solar storm have to not only damage power grid, but also somehow destroy fuel supply chain. As far as I know, it is human elites that are trying to destroy fuel supply, not solar flares.
All in all, this doomsday predictions looks more like programming for possible intentional and forced internet shutdown by elites. And even in that case, that will not be total outage, at best they will shutdown large corporations like google/amazon/microsoft and cellular providers. But smaller independent providers will still be able to maintain connectivity and basic services. This "internet shutdown" thing looks more like shooting in own foot, than like some attempt to stop spreading of some information.
But, just imagine internet without all that shitty corporations and their attempts to control it. That would be awesome.
You miss the point big time. Only a fool is interpeting a mainstream article literally and ignoring the subtext.
One company - Cisco - is the producer of 90% of the internet's routing infrastructure. Flip the switch on those "undocumented features" and taking the internet down is a turnkey operation.
The official story for morons? "Solar storm". "Cyber pandemic".
You wrote an essay debunking obvious sheep food. The only kind of person who would waste their time doing this is another farm animal. Add another Dead Drone to the list.
One company - Cisco - is the producer of 90% of the internet's routing infrastructure. Flip the switch on those "undocumented features" and taking the internet down is a turnkey operation.
That's not that simple. Those Cisco devices have a hacked IOS versions for decades with all that stupid Cisco "pay-to-work" features unlocked and any telemetry and all that stuff exterminated. Cisco routers/switches used in Internet eXchanges (IXes) and by internet providers are pretty simple and not very powerful computers with specific peripheral designed to switch packets at insane rates. Cisco already tried to turn off "subscriptions" for Russian users because of "sanctions". Less than 20% of sold devices show any signs of malfunction. Those at big corporations who for unknown reasons didn't replace IOS to a hacked version. Also, Cisco is not the only high-bandwidth solutions provider. There are Juniper, Huawei and many others. One country (or even some coalition) is unable to control all of them, even putting apart a question of hacked firmware which is very popular.
I think this "internet shutdown" will be done just by ordering Google/Microsoft/Apple to turn off their servers for public. Average sheeple will immidiately decide that internet does not work anymore, since they use gadgets completely locked onto that companies centralized services.
Internet itself is nearly undestroyable. Even if largest IX'es will be down, subnets will find each other through other channels. It could look weird, when packets from neighboring buildings in US will travel through Europe, but it will still work. Only those who sticked to that large IXes and have no reserve channels will suffer.
Say, it will be a funny act of temporary cleaning internet from sheeple, bots and MSM for "weeks of months". Nothing to care about, really.
Those Cisco devices have a hacked IOS versions for decades with all that stupid Cisco "pay-to-work" features unlocked and any telemetry and all that stuff exterminated.
You have no clue what "undocumented" means in this context. You think it has something to with features you can turn off or exploit.
Cisco routers/switches used in Internet eXchanges (IXes) and by internet providers are pretty simple and not very powerful computers with specific peripheral designed to switch packets at insane rates.
You have no clue about the criticality of backbone internet appliances or who operates them. You think it has something to do with their processing power and ISPs.
Typing a lot and saying nothing, still missing the basic point of my original comment. Absolute worthless Dead Drone.
You have no clue what "undocumented" means in this context. You think it has something to with features you can turn off or exploit.
Did you ever teardown something like Cisco ASR1000 series? I do. It's not some magic box with magic properties.
I'm really tired from that lame bullshit about secret hidden processors nobody could find that wait for some secret packet from somwhere. All that functionality, if it exists at all in such device, is run on main processor and implemented in plain firmware. For broadband devices you don't even need to hide that stuff in something like Intel ME, because corporations that made that stuff for providers and datacenters 146% shure that their customers will never dig inside so expensive device or reverse-engineer software of that "serious" devices under the threat of lawsuits and voiding warranty.
No, most telecom devices are pretty safe to use if you dared to replace official firmware.
What is the source of that modified firmware? It is also pretty easy. This devices somethimes are unique and could not be easily replaced. At the same time, many state organisations of different countries with strict security policies need them. They hire hackers/programmers to clean up that things from anything suspicious. They don't give a fuck to any "intellectual property" laws or contract terms that prohibit such activity. And they absolutely don't care if a modified firmware will leak to the public eventually.
It is another market with completely different laws and rules. Arrogance of manufacturers and dumb faith in the US laws plays funny games with them.
You have no clue about the criticality of backbone internet appliances or who operates them.
I personally know people who own backbone nodes here. And no, they will not follow some orders from US state department or whatever. So, even if US backbone will be shut off, US trafic will began to flow through other countries. Or you trying to tell me that US internet is not a bunch of different random interconnections between providers but some centralized thing where all US trafic flow through a single government controlled point? If so, then it is much worse than even Chineese internet and US have much severe problems and some potential internet outage is not even in top 100.
You think it has something to do with their processing power and ISPs.
I already told you, that all Cisco devices have very weak processors, comparing even to your phone. That is why firmware is pretty simple. No processors are used for packet processing in such devices. It's fabric's job, not processor one. And no existing CPU could process modern packet rates.
You have absolutely no idea how that things made and work at all. :) IDK, try to read something about how modern high-bandwidth switches and routers really work.
And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected.
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?!
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?
New babel about to drop? Babylon will fall!
Do that persons who write that garbage doom articles know that unlike power grid internet today use optical glass fiber links, and all equipment that could potentially be damaged by solar storm electromagrnetic waves resides at least in buildings built from steel reinforced concrete that is enough to be a Faraday cage for sensitive devices. Really, most datacenters have even more serious means of protection.
Power greed is kind of wulnerable for solar storms because of length of conductors that act as an antenna large enough to receive that huge but slow electromagnetic splash. Internet infrastructure just don't have long enough conductors to produce any noticeable currents that could somehow interfere with it. Glass fibers are not conductive, so any solar storm is absolutlely nothing for them.
Even if power grid will be shut down (unlikely, since power grid today have much more protection circuits and devices than one of Carrington even times), internet datacenters will just switch to diesel generators for power, which are must have for anything that slightly resemble datacenter.
And no, there could not be weeks or months even if something goes absolutely wrong. In the worst case most power grid will be up and running within few days maximum.
So to turn internet off, solar storm have to not only damage power grid, but also somehow destroy fuel supply chain. As far as I know, it is human elites that are trying to destroy fuel supply, not solar flares.
All in all, this doomsday predictions looks more like programming for possible intentional and forced internet shutdown by elites. And even in that case, that will not be total outage, at best they will shutdown large corporations like google/amazon/microsoft and cellular providers. But smaller independent providers will still be able to maintain connectivity and basic services. This "internet shutdown" thing looks more like shooting in own foot, than like some attempt to stop spreading of some information.
But, just imagine internet without all that shitty corporations and their attempts to control it. That would be awesome.
You miss the point big time. Only a fool is interpeting a mainstream article literally and ignoring the subtext.
One company - Cisco - is the producer of 90% of the internet's routing infrastructure. Flip the switch on those "undocumented features" and taking the internet down is a turnkey operation.
The official story for morons? "Solar storm". "Cyber pandemic".
You wrote an essay debunking obvious sheep food. The only kind of person who would waste their time doing this is another farm animal. Add another Dead Drone to the list.
That's not that simple. Those Cisco devices have a hacked IOS versions for decades with all that stupid Cisco "pay-to-work" features unlocked and any telemetry and all that stuff exterminated. Cisco routers/switches used in Internet eXchanges (IXes) and by internet providers are pretty simple and not very powerful computers with specific peripheral designed to switch packets at insane rates. Cisco already tried to turn off "subscriptions" for Russian users because of "sanctions". Less than 20% of sold devices show any signs of malfunction. Those at big corporations who for unknown reasons didn't replace IOS to a hacked version. Also, Cisco is not the only high-bandwidth solutions provider. There are Juniper, Huawei and many others. One country (or even some coalition) is unable to control all of them, even putting apart a question of hacked firmware which is very popular.
I think this "internet shutdown" will be done just by ordering Google/Microsoft/Apple to turn off their servers for public. Average sheeple will immidiately decide that internet does not work anymore, since they use gadgets completely locked onto that companies centralized services.
Internet itself is nearly undestroyable. Even if largest IX'es will be down, subnets will find each other through other channels. It could look weird, when packets from neighboring buildings in US will travel through Europe, but it will still work. Only those who sticked to that large IXes and have no reserve channels will suffer.
Say, it will be a funny act of temporary cleaning internet from sheeple, bots and MSM for "weeks of months". Nothing to care about, really.
You have no clue what "undocumented" means in this context. You think it has something to with features you can turn off or exploit.
You have no clue about the criticality of backbone internet appliances or who operates them. You think it has something to do with their processing power and ISPs.
Typing a lot and saying nothing, still missing the basic point of my original comment. Absolute worthless Dead Drone.
Did you ever teardown something like Cisco ASR1000 series? I do. It's not some magic box with magic properties.
I'm really tired from that lame bullshit about secret hidden processors nobody could find that wait for some secret packet from somwhere. All that functionality, if it exists at all in such device, is run on main processor and implemented in plain firmware. For broadband devices you don't even need to hide that stuff in something like Intel ME, because corporations that made that stuff for providers and datacenters 146% shure that their customers will never dig inside so expensive device or reverse-engineer software of that "serious" devices under the threat of lawsuits and voiding warranty.
No, most telecom devices are pretty safe to use if you dared to replace official firmware.
What is the source of that modified firmware? It is also pretty easy. This devices somethimes are unique and could not be easily replaced. At the same time, many state organisations of different countries with strict security policies need them. They hire hackers/programmers to clean up that things from anything suspicious. They don't give a fuck to any "intellectual property" laws or contract terms that prohibit such activity. And they absolutely don't care if a modified firmware will leak to the public eventually.
It is another market with completely different laws and rules. Arrogance of manufacturers and dumb faith in the US laws plays funny games with them.
I personally know people who own backbone nodes here. And no, they will not follow some orders from US state department or whatever. So, even if US backbone will be shut off, US trafic will began to flow through other countries. Or you trying to tell me that US internet is not a bunch of different random interconnections between providers but some centralized thing where all US trafic flow through a single government controlled point? If so, then it is much worse than even Chineese internet and US have much severe problems and some potential internet outage is not even in top 100.
I already told you, that all Cisco devices have very weak processors, comparing even to your phone. That is why firmware is pretty simple. No processors are used for packet processing in such devices. It's fabric's job, not processor one. And no existing CPU could process modern packet rates.
You have absolutely no idea how that things made and work at all. :) IDK, try to read something about how modern high-bandwidth switches and routers really work.
You've forgotten the end user.
And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
You clearly live in a city.
You miss. I live deep in a forest. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
This isn't even new.
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?
America has been pretending to be a developed country for a long time.
They aren't even trying to protect the grid. They want the grid to go down.
I'm not so sure, the grid going down cripples them too
Not if they only allow the general publics infrastructure to go down, and not their own.
I think if it goes down it'll be too big for even the big boys. But I guess we'll see
Like the picture, most of our electronics are in the air unprotected. In some places it causes cancer, and birth defects. It's a choice due to cost.
Agreed. We should dismantle the establishment.
Y'all know this is crap bullshit fake fucking news, right?