Most guides I know of contain more than just possibilities and a few examples.

The answer is yes.

I have a friend who has a hard copy (paper print out) of the code of a multi-threaded hydra style trojan that is capable of destroying the entire internet despite improved security of networks since it was written.

However, it is over a thousand pages long, and would have to be hand-typed into a compiler as no electronic copy of it exists, and the hard copy is locked away in a safety deposit box.

So it is no threat. No one would be crazy enough to do all that typing (and OCR wouldn't work because you'd have to go through the entire code to look for mistakes inherent in ocr) just to make a hard copy. Not only that, only my friend has access, and he's not the kind of guy who'd use it.

So yes, it can be done. No hacker capable of such a feat of coding would have an electronic copy of such a thing though.

So you don't have to worry that it will be done, while knowing it can.

The Internet will be destroyed by turning it into television.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: The answer is yes.

I have a friend who has a hard copy (paper print out) of the code of a multi-threaded hydra style trojan that is capable of destroying the entire internet despite improved security of networks since it was written.

However, it is over a thousand pages long, and would have to be hand-typed into a compiler as no electronic copy of it exists, and the hard copy is locked away in a safety deposit box.

So it is no threat. No one would be crazy enough to do all that typing (and OCR wouldn't work because you'd have to go through the entire code to look for mistakes inherent in ocr) just to make a hard copy. Not only that, only my friend has access, and he's not the kind of guy who'd use it.

So yes, it can be done. No hacker capable of such a feat of coding would have an electronic copy of such a thing though.

So you don't have to worry that it will be done, while knowing it can.

Jesus christ, man! How much DID you drink last night?

yawn

when do smart devices start to talk to each other and start using towers and hubs less and less?
(yes, I know, that in the end, you need to get to land lines in order to be able to reach anything useful, but ...)

Google even stores cached copies of all Wikipedia pages; these were accessible on Jan. 18 when Wikipedia took its own versions of the pages offline in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

Do people still really believe you couldn't read Wikipedia on Jan. 18?

jaylectricity: Google even stores cached copies of all Wikipedia pages; these were accessible on Jan. 18 when Wikipedia took its own versions of the pages offline in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

Do people still really believe you couldn't read Wikipedia on Jan. 18?

Depends on the year. Jan. 18, 1836 nobody could read it.

Kimpak: You can take out parts of the internet quite easily. But it would be difficult to kill the whole thing at one go. As an employee of a large ISP, I know we have one building that if taken out would take down our entire network.

/getting a kick, etc...

Really? How does any ISP have a single point of failure?

DammitIForgotMyLogin: The answer is yes.

I have a friend who has a hard copy (paper print out) of the code of a multi-threaded hydra style trojan that is capable of destroying the entire internet despite improved security of networks since it was written.

However, it is over a thousand pages long, and would have to be hand-typed into a compiler as no electronic copy of it exists, and the hard copy is locked away in a safety deposit box.

So it is no threat. No one would be crazy enough to do all that typing (and OCR wouldn't work because you'd have to go through the entire code to look for mistakes inherent in ocr) just to make a hard copy. Not only that, only my friend has access, and he's not the kind of guy who'd use it.

So yes, it can be done. No hacker capable of such a feat of coding would have an electronic copy of such a thing though.

So you don't have to worry that it will be done, while knowing it can.

Ummmm, no.

Whoever spent the time to code that trojan, spent a hell of a lot more time creating it than it would take to merely have 20 people type all of 50 pages of it... which could be done in a day.

Or one person could type 50 pages/day in a month.

jaylectricity: Google even stores cached copies of all Wikipedia pages; these were accessible on Jan. 18 when Wikipedia took its own versions of the pages offline in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

Do people still really believe you couldn't read Wikipedia on Jan. 18?

The whole site was accessible that day. All one had to do was disable JavaScript in their browser.

Big, BIG bomb to Ashburn VA...a lot of server farms and a HUGE Verizon campus is there. Hell, just nuke NoVa and call it a day.

I'm not worried. I printed off a hard copy just the other day just in case.

It'll be fine just so long as you don't drop it.

Tempest2097: Dagnabbit. I knew what that was going to be. I knew you knew I knew it was going to be that. Yet I clicked on it anyway. You magnificent bastard, why do I click on that knowing what it's going to be?

Because it's the right thing to do.

It's the ONLY thing to do in these troubled times.

rocky_howard: uh uh uh. hovered over that link just to find noodles ;)

ALLEGEDLY.