And yeah I knew where you were going. You just inspired me to write some things I've been pondering for awhile.
I stopped using Facebook years ago.
I decided to stop using Youtube last week unless I have an urgent job related (must watch something there for my job) reasons. I unsubscribed from most of the people I was subscribed to (have a few I missed) and sent them a comment letting them know WHY and that it wasn't their fault and letting them know if they were on bitchute, dtube, dlive, real.video, etc that I'd be happy to subscribe to them there. I did give up some things I like to watch that I can't find anywhere else, but I'll survive. I think the line in the sand was crossed some time ago, but now they have walked way past that line. I can no longer justify supporting them for my own comfort.
BGP is the really nasty thing. :)
Oh and just for the hell of it I checked a few things:
STEEMIT.COM is using an IP address belonging to Amazon. So amazon could take that out easily.
BUSY.ORG on the otherhand resolves to a cloudflare IP address. Usually cloudflare is just used for countering DDOS attacks so there is some chance busy at least can resist completely being taken down for long if it was just IP related.
DTUBE.Video also resolves to a cloudflare IP address.
DLIVE.TV resolves to Amazon.
STEEMDB.COM resolves to an address in Germany.
So there are vulnerabilities, but it may not be too terrible. DLIVE and STEEMIT are at the bidding of Bezos and Amazon as to whether they remain operational until they move it and repoint the DNS servers. Since it is open source I know that would be a temporary outage.
The fact they open sourced everything is one of the main things that helps us remain functional when attacked. Sites can be taken out, but there is hope we can get around those things.
As to banking... BGP can be routed somewhere else that then knows what to hand off... so they could use BGP to basically route traffic through something that allowed some through and not others. BGP is dangerous due to try to mess with requiring large blocks of IPs being routed at a time. Yet it is still a possibility.
If they are okay with some collateral damage then BGP is always an alternative that is worse than taking out DNS.
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