frezik, 6 months ago For many countries, it’d be as easy as cutting a few undersea cables. Two to three cut cables in 2008 brought down most of the Arab peninsula. www.wired.com/2008/12/mediterranean-c/ As for the US and Europe, things are too interconnected for that to work. That said, the Internet as a whole is more centralized than you might expect from its history as a network that was supposed to be nuclear war proof.
For many countries, it’d be as easy as cutting a few undersea cables. Two to three cut cables in 2008 brought down most of the Arab peninsula.
www.wired.com/2008/12/mediterranean-c/
As for the US and Europe, things are too interconnected for that to work. That said, the Internet as a whole is more centralized than you might expect from its history as a network that was supposed to be nuclear war proof.