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Originally posted by: Opteron Guy
Originally posted by: SampSon
What if a pentagon janitor was to trip and unplug the internet?

Is the internet really run in the Pentagon?
It's currently being hosted on a quad isdn setup out of area 51. Totally badass.

The pentagon houses the other side of the tin can and string.
 

Plasdom

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will just take a DDOS on the DNS servers. I believe there are only 14 of them. granted if you remember ip addresses the internet will work for you but how many people do?
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: spidey07
No.

Google is nothing more than an internet site. They could not take down the internet anymore than a skilled hacker could.

Wow.
 

imported_goku

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buahahah! Yea FSCKING RIGHT! I've seen little kiddies DDOS google/yahoo and see it go down, I doubt google could do the reverse...
 

natto fire

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Originally posted by: Opteron Guy
Originally posted by: SampSon
What if a pentagon janitor was to trip and unplug the internet?

Is the internet really run in the Pentagon?

Well luckily, Al Gore oversees all the janitorial work at the Pentagon, he would have his baby back up in a jiffy. :p
 

So

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It's not their infrastructure that makes them strong, it's having their pick of the best CS/CPE graduates out of all the world's universities for the last half decade, and having the cast to hire anyone else they want, and then giving them sufficent tools. If the entire google staff took to the task of crippling the internet, I guarantee you they'd figure out a way.
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: So
It's not their infrastructure that makes them strong, it's having their pick of the best CS/CPE graduates out of all the world's universities for the last half decade, and having the cast to hire anyone else they want, and then giving them sufficent tools. If the entire google staff took to the task of crippling the internet, I guarantee you they'd figure out a way.

I'll put my money on the black, thank you.