I did say router to router in my question. Poisoning of BGP routes would work. I think that the intentional cutting of fiber optic cables would be their best bet as they could cut at segments in rural and remote areas where they'd be least likely to be caught in the process. I however, hope they don't attempt to cause a nationwide communications blackout.
The best they could do with fiber cuts is to segment the Internet geographically until the cuts were repaired... alternate routes would be partially successful in the interim, but the performance (congestion and latency) would generally be terrible.
Stupid BGP tricks would work in the short term, but china, iran, etc have already been doing that sort of thing for a while, and countermeasures have been worked out. The white hats know a bit about network engineering and the Internet, so it's not as if the world is defenseless against DS sabotage.
I did say router to router in my question. Poisoning of BGP routes would work. I think that the intentional cutting of fiber optic cables would be their best bet as they could cut at segments in rural and remote areas where they'd be least likely to be caught in the process. I however, hope they don't attempt to cause a nationwide communications blackout.
The best they could do with fiber cuts is to segment the Internet geographically until the cuts were repaired... alternate routes would be partially successful in the interim, but the performance (congestion and latency) would generally be terrible.
Stupid BGP tricks would work in the short term, but china, iran, etc have already been doing that sort of thing for a while, and countermeasures have been worked out. The white hats know a bit about network engineering and the Internet, so it's not as if the world is defenseless against DS sabotage.