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Originally posted by vBreezo
reply to post by badmedia
Bandwidth is NOT unlimited. If it were, the "Denial of Service" barrage that hits the net from spammers occassionaly would not occur. Yes, that originates with overloaded servers but it also affects network traffic in general as the major routers also have excessive traffic as a result.
Writing "tons of bandwidth" indicates that you need college grads just to get the terminology straight.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon Friday (Oct 30, 2009) on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts.
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) brings together various government organizations responsible for protecting cyber networks and infrastructure and private sector partners.
"This will be a 24/7, 365-day-a-year facility to improve our national efforts to prepare and respond to threats and incidents affecting critical information technology and communications infrastructure," Napolitano said.
The data center will be built at Camp Williams, a National Guard training center 26 miles south of Salt Lake City, which was chosen for its access to cheap power, communications infrastructure, and availability of space, Gaffney said. The complex will comprise up to 1.5 million square feet of building space on 120 to 200 acres, according to the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City.
According to a budget document for the project, the 30-megawatt data center will be cooled by chilled water and capable of Tier 3, or near carrier-grade, reliability. The design calls for the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard within available resources.
Amy Kudwa, a Homeland Security Department spokeswoman, said that while NSA does provide "technical expertise" to DHS in connection with its cyber-security responsibilities, details of this assistance are classified. She said that although Alexander was present for the opening of the NCCIC, it was her information that the spy agency would not have representatives seated in the command center on a daily basis. She said that private sector companies eventually will be invited to assign personnel to work in the command center.
Originally posted by Lhuhikwdwoo
on the off chance this attempted shut down goes anywhere, and it starts by cutting off DNS server access by individual, or cuts off the dns to name connection for sites the regulators want gone, might I suggest ATS gets a back up server that is run by DNS numbers, not normal web addy names?
Originally posted by vBreezo
reply to post by badmedia
Bandwidth is NOT unlimited. If it were, the "Denial of Service" barrage that hits the net from spammers occassionaly would not occur. Yes, that originates with overloaded servers but it also affects network traffic in general as the major routers also have excessive traffic as a result.
Writing "tons of bandwidth" indicates that you need college grads just to get the terminology straight.
Originally posted by Byrd
Lhu, I'm not picking on you in particular; just addressing some of the issues.
At this point the web is so complex that there is not a single act that could take the whole thing out (short of shutting off electricity to the whole planet for a month... and by that time, solar powered units would be up and going.
As to controls... the government can't "shut down the borders" here in the US for Internet. In a tiny country with one main backbone feeding it, it would be possible to shut down sources (and this is done in many places). But in a country where you have multiple backbones and multiple redundancies, there's no good way to completely shut it off.