There are only a few ways you could take down the internet anyways.

Attacking the root name servers... (good luck with that).

There are currently 13 root name servers specified, with names in the form letter.root-servers.net, where letter ranges from A to M. This does not mean there are 13 physical servers; each operator uses redundant computer equipment to provide reliable service even if failure of hardware or software occur. Additionally, nine of the servers operate in multiple geographical locations using a routing technique called anycast, providing increased performance and even more fault tolerance.

A number of hacking groups in the past have launched big DDOS attacks against a number of the root name servers, and nothing happened... Even a botnet of around 5 million would struggle to take them down I’d guess.

The other way would be attacking major peering points... which might only take down a location or section of internet, not the whole thing. For example, if you targeted Australia’s major peer point up north, you could cripple Australia’s internet connection. This isn't so true for places like Europe, Asia or the Usa as they are larger and have a bigger network. It would be real hard, and require a fuckload of hosts and inside information to figure out all the key peer points globally to even try and take them all out... and even then, once you launched the attack you would lose nodes from attacking other peer points once you successfully took one down. So once again... good luck.

So in short, taking down the internet is almost impossible.

Now you can all sleep easy at night knowing your porn, viruses and pirated movies will be there when you wake up.

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