It depends on what you mean by shutting down the whole internet. There are several main back bones that if destroyed, would severely cripple the internet to the point it wouldn't be usable anymore, yet parts of it would still work.
You could poison DNS and make name lookups no longer work. That wouldn't prevent connections, but would essentially take most people offline.
It depends on what you mean by shutting down the whole internet. There are several main back bones that if destroyed, would severely cripple the internet to the point it wouldn't be usable anymore, yet parts of it would still work.
You could poison DNS and make name lookups no longer work. That wouldn't prevent connections, but would essentially take most people offline.
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