Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 06, @02:00PM

from the millions-of-voices-suddenly-cried-out-in-terror dept.

GhostX9 writes"Tom's Hardware recently interviewed Dino A. Dai Zovi, a former member of Sandia National Labs' IDART (the guys who test the security of national agencies). Although most of the interview is focused on personal computer security, they asked him about L0pht's claim in 1998 if the Internet could still be taken down in 30 minutes given the advances on both the security and threat sides. He said that the risk was still true."