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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   >On 11/01/2014 4:45 am, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
      
   >>      By contrast, there's no one thing you could destroy that would shut   
   >> down the Internet. I'm not sure that you could shut it down by   
   >> destroying TEN things, including major comm hubs. There's a lot of   
   >> redundancy in the system. And all the data and computation is spread to   
   >> literally millions of machines. Vastly different.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >Cutting one ocean cable can slow it down significantly.   
      
   Wasn't there a backhoe accident in the nineties that took out 30% of   
   the internet for a couple of days?   
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