Tom,
Rest assured I'll defend public infrastructures up until cold. Though
I'm always on for a good joke, and just wanted to point out induced
dependencies that weakens most IT setups.
What worries me is unforeseen consequences of the small pieces of
infrastructure or software that everyone took for granted, and that
could just vanish overnight, over a targeted attack or geopolitical
situation for example.
Sorry if it looked like a real suggestion. The world is so trumped by
idiocracy it's getting harder and harder to distinguish satire from the
truth.
Better assume stupid than malignant ©®™ Hanlon.
Best regards,
Le 15/08/2025 à 18:13, Tom Beecher a écrit :
I'll restate with a more adult argument instead of snark.
I completely support protests to voice displeasure. ( Non-violent ones
of course. )
I do NOT support turning off bits of internet infrastructure to bring
attention to a thing being protested, or as part of the protest itself.
Nobody should support doing this. Ever. In my view even suggesting it is
bad.
If your suggestion was mostly in jest, then I missed that and I
apologize for the strong reply. If you were actually shooting your shot
to have this happen, I would urge you to seriously consider what the
consequences of that would be.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM Jérôme Nicolle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Tom,
Le 15/08/2025 à 16:58, Tom Beecher a écrit :
> Asking Google to inject themselves into protests about the French
budget
> takes some pretty massive balls. Almost impressive.
There's a saying here : "Forget you have no chance, go on with it. If
misunderstood, it could work."
Words to live by. Also, takes a wheelbarrow.
Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZo-xKxuLY <https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZo-xKxuLY>
Best regards,
P.S: on a more serious note, such an event as gDNS going down would
most
certainly create havoc. It is run by trained professionals, don't try
this at home.
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Jérôme Nicolle
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