Can someone destroy the internet?

Short answer: Highly unlikely. There is no single “switch” or command that would do this, but there are theoretical ways to sabotage the Internet that would require a great deal of coordination with people in multiple locations. Long answer: There are two services that are critical to most of the Internet: DNS and BGP.

Is the Internet controlled?

Upshot: If you control all of DNS, you can control all of the internet. The people conducting the ceremony are part of an organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is responsible for assigning numerical internet addresses to websites and computers.

What would it take to destroy the Internet?

The internet is essentially a network of all computers, phones, and servers in the world. To destroy the internet, you have to either sever this connection, or destroy every electronic device in the world.

Could one person take down the Internet?

No one person could permanently dismantle the internet, but if a savvy-enough group of people acted together to jam networks and attack physical infrastructure, then we’d all have to start reading books again. For more of the breakthroughs changing our lives, follow NBC MACH.

Can a botnet take down the entire Internet?

A botnet owner with a few hundred thousand internet-connected computers at his or her disposal could cause much higher-profile problems, like making Facebook disappear for the internet-using public. But can one person take down the entire internet? “The answer is no,” says Gleb Budman, CEO of BackBlaze, a backup company and cloud storage provider.

Is the Internet physically invulnerable?

A vast behemoth that can route around outages and self-heal, the Internet has grown physically invulnerable to destruction by bombs, fires or natural disasters — within countries, at least. It’s “very richly interconnected,” said David Clark, a computer scientist at MIT who was a leader in the development of the Internet during the 1970s.