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Four Ways The Internet Could Go Down

Posted July 10, 2012 11:49 AM

From CNN.com - Technology:

The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.

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Re: Four Ways The Internet Could Go Down

07/10/2012 7:14 PM

Where's critical node power failure mentioned (after all the internet is not a true mesh network and as such subject to the same limitations)?

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