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.
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.