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Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The less diversity you have in any ecosystem, the more vulnerable you become, and there's zero diversity at the top of the internet supply chain. You can pick any core area of the internet and you'll find a very short list of companies in control.

That natural conclusion of an absolutely free market is a monopoly. With no regulation, one company will end up dominating everything. I can only hope that over time we will have technologies that allow citizens to make big mesh networks.

CrowdStrike is the closest we've come to a full-blown internet shutdown. Even with its unprecedented scale, however, the consequences lasted just a few days.

Indeed. I bet you nothing important will come of this. Crowdstrike will survive, maybe with a scrape or two, but will continue to enjoy unfettered access to critical systems world-wide.

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