How long will it take to download the entire internet?

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by tony404

I was listening to npr a couple of days ago and they had said hackers tried to crash the internet and the scary part is they said 13 servers are the backbone of the whole net.

I would also place a pretty good bet that there are redundancies built into the system.

the 'crash the internet' thing has been tried before and fantasized about endlessly in the blackhat group of dudes and dudettes. Its something that has been studied by the government and saftey nets put in place.

if you want to be really scared, think about this; Foreign governments have people who are paid to devise ways to attack our infrastructure over the internet. just about everything from banking to power grids and they believe that is how the next war will be carried out.......sure crashing the internet is an awesome idea......but specifically targeting the things that enable our society to function in an attack that could happen at any time and cause massive damage that could take months to recover from......that'll keep you awake at night


spaz

[Reptile]

It is impossible to download the entire internet.

By the time you completed such a task the internet would have

grown so much larger it would then take even longer to download

the rest of it. Content is being added to the internet at a far faster

rate than any one person or computer could ever hope to download

it all.

And Besides...

Even if you did somehow manage to instantly download the entire

internet all at once...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT???