If you want to commit the greatest conceivable act of terrorism and
declare a version of war against every country on the planet, you only
need to take the world offline.
So many facets of human life are nowadays
facilitated by a giant machine called "the internet," which networks the
world to unlock all kinds technological convenience. By instantaneously
moving information from one place to another, the internet touches
everything we depend on in 2016 — our transportation systems, our
mortgage payments, and our Amazon purchases alike. To say goodbye to it
permanently wouldn't be like losing a limb; it would require a whole new
worldview.
Malicious actors have previously made parts of the internet disappear
for some people. It happened as recently as October, when a distributed
denial of service (DDoS) attack against a company called Dyn temporarily
made A-list services like Reddit, Twitter, and Spotify evaporate.
Acting as a type of phone book for the internet, Dyn provides domain
name system services to these and many more sites, so when you type,
say, "www.facebook.com" into your browser, Dyn translates this into the
numerical IP address of the server you want to access.
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Source: NBC News
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