Hypothetically, if the world's best hackers came together, how much damage possible?

[95Viper]

Had unlimited resources as in money to buy parts, or whatever they need.

Would not be wasting it on the internet... PARTY TIME!

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Why in Hades would they kill the internet.

DNS servers allow you to type in something easy to remember. Without DNS the internet is useless to 90% of people. The remaining 10% of tech savvy people can type in IPs directly. That's what I'd have done if I had a group of hackers, given how relatively easy that would be.


Sufficiently talented black hats can do a lot. Anonymous and Lulzsec had only a small fraction of the black hat community, and they managed government website takedowns, DDOS, and other large scale attacks (LOIC anyone?). Imagining that in the hands of, many more, capable people and I'm scared...

Problem is, humans are still fundamentally greedy. Why kill the internet, when you can mine credit card data?

 

[Easy Rhino]

They wouldn't take out the net, they can't! What would they do with no interwebz?

lol exactly.

"let's take down the internet!!" said internet hackers.

 

[Disparia]

Problem is, humans are still fundamentally greedy. Why kill the internet, when you can mine credit card data?

For the lulz.

 

[Krazy Owl]

If all hackers got together the only best thing they would have to do is to shut down the guy computer who continue to send us "Free gambling". Free porn" and "Enlarge your penis".

 

[Solaris17]

direct attack on multiple ISP/data center main frames and just start a system wide ban of class A/B/C subnets. everyone would DC eventually

 

[Kreij]

Technically you couldn't destroy the internet, but you could disrupt it on a massive scale for some period of time. If you could write some malware that targetted routers (not computers) and wiped out the all the routing tables (including backup tables and redundant routers), everything would come to a screaming halt.

It would not be easy, but a wide scale disruption of just several hours would cause trillions of dollars in losses.
When you got caught (and they would find you), you would spend a long time in a small room as "Bubba's wife".

 

[OnePostWonder]

Technically you couldn't destroy the internet, but you could disrupt it on a massive scale for some period of time. If you could write some malware that targetted routers (not computers) and wiped out the all the routing tables (including backup tables and redundant routers), everything would come to a screaming halt.

It would not be easy, but a wide scale disruption of just several hours would cause trillions of dollars in losses.
When you got caught (and they would find you), you would spend a long time in a small room as "Bubba's wife".

Or he could find himself in a menage a trois:

With one of the prisoner workers no less!

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Nothing would get done. They would all argue over which modded and custom compiled linux distro is the best.

 

[Drone]

Oh the interference ... I think they would cancel each other out.

 

[D007]

If they had the power to piss off the wrong people, they would find themselves on some very dangerous peoples hit lists.. Hacking a computer won't stop a squad of seals from placing a bullet between your eyes.. You threaten the security of the country, the country will respond and it will not be with some lame, 3 hour hack..