Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sorry, did you have plans?

The DDOS campaign is expected to target the world’s 13 domain name servers (DNSs), that allow the public to use the internet by translating human legible text-string URLs into machine-readable IP addresses.  If the attack indeed materializes and if the DNS servers are all taken down, the Mayan apocalypse could come early — the internet could blink offline.

According to Operation Global Blackout

By cutting these off the Internet, nobody will be able to perform a domain name lookup, thus, disabling the HTTP Internet, which is, after all, the most widely used function of the Web. Anybody entering “http://www.google.com” or ANY other url, will get an error page, thus, they will think the Internet is down, which is, close enough. Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to ‘kill’ the Internet, we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most.

Right so. Good luck with that.

Anonymous Supposedly Plans to “Kill” the Internet on March 31 (DailyTech)

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Nice.

Made 10 years ago, but gaining viral traction now, Yu Ming, Is Ainm Dom (or My Name Is Yu Ming) sketches, in a scant 13 minutes, the story of a bored Chinese clerk, who, with a leap of faith and a spin of the globe, sets his sights on Ireland, where his research tells him the language is Gaelic.

You can see where this is going…

Irish Eyes on China, A Chinese Man Eyes Ireland (John Lee, Huffington Post)

Directed by Daniel O’Hara. Produced by Grainne O’Carroll.

(Thanks Miranda Wrights)