![]() |
|
|
#1 |
|
Banned
|
Hypothetically, if the world's best hackers came together, how much damage possible?
Let's say, best hackers in the world from all nations came together. Had unlimited resources as in money to buy parts, or whatever they need.
Could they shut down the entire internet for a month or a week even? (I am just trying to guesstimate how much power even the best hackers have in the the most recent of years.) |
|
|
|
|
|
#2 | |
![]() Join Date: May 2009
Location: London, UK
Posts: 3,670 (2.49/day)
Thanks: 444
Thanked 770 Times in 679 Posts
|
Quote:
I wouldn't like to see that happen at all...
__________________
![]() |
|
|
|
|
|
|
#3 |
|
Banned
|
@Bo$$ I don't want to see anything like that either, I just am not entirely sure what the elite hackers are capable of and I want to understand better. Anomynous and Lulsec didn't impress me, they shut down some stuff for what a few hours at most, maybe stole some credit card information, etc? All very minor imho, but if they had the power to shut down the internet for top retailers like Amazon or something for more than a week, that could cause quite a hiccup in the stock market or something.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#4 |
![]() |
We've seen a nuclear facility be afflicted by a virus in the last year or so, so I'd wager to say they could do more than shut down the internet.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#5 |
|
Unpaid Babysitter
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 18,985 (7.32/day)
Thanks: 3,034
Thanked 5,482 Times in 3,948 Posts
|
They wouldn't take out the net, they can't! What would they do with no interwebz?
__________________
Hers: ASUS Maximus V Gene / i7 3770K / Swiftech H220 / 4X8GB Corsair Dominators / ASUS GTX660 / Corsair AX-760 / Windows 7 64bit / Fractal Design ARC Midi R2 Test: Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3 / i7 2600K / A lot Of Coolers / Ripjaws Currently / HIS HD7950 IceQ Turbo / Silverstone SST-ST85F-G / Windows 7 64bit / InWin D-Frame Limited Edition |
|
|
|
| The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to sneekypeet For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#6 |
![]() Join Date: May 2012
Location: WR, Georgia
Posts: 770 (2.08/day)
Thanks: 65
Thanked 58 Times in 50 Posts
|
Too many nerds in one place! Isn't that what the Star Wars conventions are for?!
|
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to tacosRcool For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#7 |
|
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: IA, USA
Posts: 10,567 (6.29/day)
Thanks: 1,752
Thanked 2,594 Times in 1,959 Posts
|
The internet is too decentralized and diverse for anyone to "shut down the entire internet."
__________________
Golden Rule of Programming: Never assume. try { SteamDownload(); } catch (Steamception ex) { RageQuit(); } |
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to FordGT90Concept For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#8 | |
![]() Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: WPB, FL
Posts: 3,325 (3.86/day)
Thanks: 2,072
Thanked 2,507 Times in 1,272 Posts
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#9 |
|
Eligible for custom title
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Miami
Posts: 5,010 (2.49/day)
Thanks: 1,484
Thanked 959 Times in 812 Posts
|
I would predict that alot of the real professional hackers with the most experience already work as whitehat or are in IT security. Alot of the malicious stuff gets caught fast.
But if the world's best hackers got together, the impact would only be limited to the scope of what they wanted to attack. Especially if they pulled out all of the stops (including dating that ugly girl from accounting on Match.com to get access to systems). |
|
|
|
|
|
#10 |
|
Banned
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#11 |
|
WCG Team Assistant
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Northeast, USA
Posts: 5,138 (9.95/day)
Thanks: 5,370
Thanked 10,038 Times in 3,167 Posts
|
Why would a hacker take out the entire net??? How would they tell anyone how cool they are for doing it?
That would be like sawing a branch off of a tree while your sitting on it....
__________________
Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!- World Community Grid (FTW) CPU crunchers- FX-8350(4.4)/FX-8150(4.0)/FX-6200(4.0)/ PII 1045T/PII 1045T/i7-920/Xeon (6c/12t)....(44 cores/54 threads) GPU crunchers- no WCG GPU work available Folding@Home- 2x GTX 580's WCG-TPU Mothers Day Challenge (5/10 thru 5/19- crunch for our Team, for Mom, for games and prizes ) |
|
|
|
|
|
#12 |
|
Banned
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#13 |
|
My name is Dave
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 10,766 (4.15/day)
Thanks: 4,473
Thanked 5,187 Times in 3,197 Posts
|
They shouldn't. They did not really do anything special, hack-wise. DDOS attacks are the lamest possible...A real hacker puts a backdoor silently, and captures ALL network traffic, then uses it, WITHOUT DETECTION. Taking a site out, making your "hack" public, is not how it works...I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a viable way to draw attention, but truly, not that useful, either socially or financially, and ultimately, is a case of a bark worse than the bite. Once hte victim know they are being hacked...it's not really much of a hack, is it? They simly unplug, change hardware, power back up with new MAC IDs and new routing hardware, and your DDOS hack is useless... Is it possible to shut down the internet? Technically, no. Anyone with a router at home ahs thier own internet, and with wireless, can connect to other routers...and even though you might take down ISPs, you'd never actually prevent networking, os no, they could not kill the internet. LIke, for example, the best example I cna come up with...create a virus that flashes the BIOS of a motherboard, OC's the machine, and then destroys the CPU via voltage. THAT might kill the internet. Guess what...similar tech is in any new Intel PC.
__________________
Gadgets, Phones, Tablets, Cameras, TVs, HiFi...NextPowerUp -Only real men play games THIS way. |
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to cadaveca For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#14 | |
![]() Join Date: May 2008
Location: Iowa, USA
Posts: 3,286 (1.80/day)
Thanks: 557
Thanked 597 Times in 437 Posts
|
Realistically to shut down the internet you would need to create a Trojan and have it go into all the servers around the world and at a preset time have it send out virus to all computer for a few min. then once it hits a certain time whip all the hard drives connected to those servers and computers...
Chance of this being able to be done 0.0000000000000000001% ![]() Quote:
Thats what I was going to say!
__________________
Last edited by Delta6326; Aug 28, 2012 at 01:25 AM. |
|
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to Delta6326 For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#15 | |
![]() Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Canadia
Posts: 1,825 (2.55/day)
Thanks: 1,755
Thanked 925 Times in 550 Posts
|
Quote:
__________________
Can I see your brown ninja? I ate a taco for the first time ever today. Feb 27/2012 Steam: TacoTown Origin: TheTacoTown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
#16 | |
![]() Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Weedopia
Posts: 1,169 (0.68/day)
Thanks: 114
Thanked 187 Times in 143 Posts
|
You mean worm?
Quote:
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#17 |
![]() Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Idaho
Posts: 2,257 (3.26/day)
Thanks: 443
Thanked 425 Times in 317 Posts
|
You wouldn't have to be a hacker to stop the world wide web. You could just cut some strategic internet wires underneath the ocean.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#18 |
![]() Join Date: May 2008
Location: Iowa, USA
Posts: 3,286 (1.80/day)
Thanks: 557
Thanked 597 Times in 437 Posts
|
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
#19 |
![]() Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Scotland
Posts: 2,053 (1.64/day)
Thanks: 329
Thanked 854 Times in 504 Posts
|
Hmm.
Shut down the internet.... Isn't that what China does to its own citizens? Besides, there's more internet lurking under there, in the dark...
__________________
My Heatware: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=75854 |
|
|
|
|
|
#20 |
|
Eligible for custom title
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Aphexdreamer\
Posts: 5,614 (2.59/day)
Thanks: 812
Thanked 888 Times in 674 Posts
|
The question shouldn't be how much damage is possible but what would their intentions be?
__________________
Sent from my PC using chrome. |
|
|
|
|
|
#21 |
![]() Join Date: May 2010
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,881 (1.72/day)
Thanks: 623
Thanked 419 Times in 344 Posts
|
Taking down the internet would achieve what many governments, businesses, politicians, etc hope for already; a cease to easily accesible information/knowledge.
You would be doing them a service
__________________
Why dazzle 'em with brilliance when you can baffle 'em with bullshit. Alterius non sit, qui potest esse sui! Und setzet ihr nicht das leben ein, Nie wird euch das leben gewonnen sein! If knowledge is power, then ignorance is bliss! If god didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep! |
|
|
|
|
|
#22 | |
![]() |
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#23 |
![]() Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: FL,USA
Posts: 1,115 (2.34/day)
Thanks: 241
Thanked 573 Times in 293 Posts
|
It would be nice for them to reveal some truths that all the governments hide from us.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#24 |
|
Benevolent Dictator
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Posts: 13,758 (4.18/day)
Thanks: 184
Thanked 10,208 Times in 3,157 Posts
|
|
|
|
|
| The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to W1zzard For This Useful Post: |
|
|
#25 |
![]() Join Date: May 2012
Location: WR, Georgia
Posts: 770 (2.08/day)
Thanks: 65
Thanked 58 Times in 50 Posts
|
You know, you may be right! Too bad I rape them at Counter-Strike
__________________
I like nachos and frozen yogurt. -Fred Fredburger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haoqEv9q_eo
|
|
|
|
![]() |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Underclock too much could damage video card? | Derek12 | Graphics Cards | 27 | Nov 27, 2010 09:55 PM |
| Possible to damage headphones if too loud? | runevirage | General Hardware | 29 | Jul 24, 2010 11:21 PM |
| Possible new Cruncher, possible Damage: Suggestions! | Velvet Wafer | Motherboards & Memory | 3 | Mar 16, 2010 11:19 PM |
| How much Best Buy charge? | JanJan | General Hardware | 7 | Mar 4, 2010 01:05 AM |
| Water Cooling: What is the best way to pevent leaking and damage caused by a leak? | TSX420J | Overclocking & Cooling | 5 | Jun 6, 2007 04:51 AM |