Hackers: Outlaws & Angels (14 of 27)
A major electronic pipeline carrying the internet's traffiic is being slowed down by a suspected hacker attack.
It looks like it's following the time zones across the Pacific and heading for America.
Indonesia is pretty much getting slammed.
It appears to be starting in the Pacific Rim and making its way towards North America.
South America still seems to be okay, but it seems like it's making its way towards North America.
It 's a possible attack on the infrastructure of the internet itself.
It appears that for whatever the reason, whatever this cause is it's moving with the sun, starting with the Pacific Rim making its way towards the U.S.
You're witnessing trench warfare on the internet.
If the attack hits America as the working day gets underway it could affect millions of people.
If it hits the North American continent like it's been hitting everybody else and then anybody that has their, an attachment to the pipeline, any pipeline would probably see some significant degradation.
All traffiic relying on the suspect internet pipeline could fail.
Carter makes an urgent check call to their sister station in Southeast Asia.
As he does, both stations simultaneously see the pipeline recover and the incident is over as quickly as it appeared.
It was just one of these anomalies, but it's an anomaly that when it happens, we were on top of it right when it occurred, and we were able to bring it to everybody's attention It's unclear what role, if any may have been played by hackers.
But for several minutes it looked like exactly the kind of attack that the white hats fear most, an electronic Pearl Harbor, the real threat of a deliberately launched info war. |
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