CatchPhrase
Senior member
First set up a gmail and yahoo email account (they both have unlimited storage). Then make them both automatically forward emails to eachother. send and email and wait to see what happens.
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how to destroy the internet.
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Jeff7
Lifer
Yeah, don't you love it? Marketing: A realm where math doesn't really matter.
"Unlimited dialup!" - then they call you and ask you to disconnect for at least several hours a day.
"Unlimited downloads!" - then you get a letter saying you're over the limit.
A better method might be to hijack several large servers or routers on the Internet's backbone and start a ddos attack.
It would just slow things down for awhile, but not destroy the Internet.
imported_apocalypse
Senior member
The current storage limit for google is 7274 MB. Yahoo I don't know but its not unlimited. They should also have something that detects a endless forwarding cycle, (microsoft has it, so google should 😛)
There would also be internal hard caps on the size of your email account or some kind of flag when you send out too many emails marking you as a spammer.
There would also be internal hard caps on the size of your email account or some kind of flag when you send out too many emails marking you as a spammer.
DisgruntledVirus
Lifer
The DNS exploit that was uncovered over the summer comes to mind on that one.
All 3 of those have become *relatively* secure. If you want to bring down the internet though find a bug in one of those 3 or Cisco IOS that brings down the routers of the internet. Outside of those 4 options, it's not entirely easy to "destroy the internet". Especially from a stupid endless email forward that has been thought of and coded to prevent from happening has already happened.
There have been bugs in IOS and JunOS that allowed you to bring them down, manipulate routing and state tables, change information. The big BGP vulnerability from a while ago...
That's one of the main reasons why you never run the same version of code on all your routers - limited exposure to vulnerabilities.
DisgruntledVirus
Lifer
Yeah. I guess I should have been more specific and said something along the lines of "you would have to find a bug in Cisco's IOS versions used most". There is most likely Cisco routers running old code in smaller companies that have maybe one or two routers. Really you would need to find a bug in the IOS across all versions, or a way to exploit bugs in multiple IOS versions.
The DNS bug recently is the most recent real way to be able "bring down the internet"....
Modelworks
Lifer
A ditch witch digging in the right area can do it, as has been proven time and again.
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