Last week DDOS attack on Google, Facebook and Twitter served as a kind of wake-up call. The attack was intended to block the activity of one single person : Cyxymu. It was supposedly political, kind to shut Cyxymu’s e-mouth. But doesn’t matter the “cause”, the effect stills there, tangible. The tool ? Hordes of zombie PCs reactivated to flood intensive requests to servers in order to block them. Google and Facebook didn’t even notice, but the little bird Twitter simply went bananas !
Consider this as an act of war. You don’t see the tanks, but you see that one of your daily beloved communication tools can be shut down as easy as that. It’s not even expensive to hire an army of e-zombies nowadays. You just need to now the right providers of evil. Consider we live in a “peace” age. Imagine what would it be in a war age, with all enemies zombifying the networks permanently, and with deadly means ! That power your’re now evaluate is simply in fact astounding. Sort of massive nuclear electronic bomb.
Even if the top fatal weapon remains the brain, the gears of war have really changed these days. Enough to freeze in starvation any country with impressive ROI.
Hoping of course no one will like to play such a game anytime soon !
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