6 Threats that Could Break the Internet As We Know It

An open source developer showed recently how the Internet -- or a fairly large number of websites, at least -- could be "broken" by removing just a few lines of code. But that's only one type of threat to the functioning of a healthy Internet. Here are other scenarios that could cause the Internet as we know it to stop working.

Christopher Tozzi, Contributing Editor

April 7, 2016

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6 Threats that Could Break the Internet As We Know It

An open source developer showed recently how the Internet — or a fairly large number of websites, at least — could be "broken" by removing just a few lines of code. But that's only one type of threat to the functioning of a healthy Internet. Here are other scenarios that could cause the Internet as we know it to stop working.

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Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi

Contributing Editor

Christopher Tozzi started covering the channel for The VAR Guy on a freelance basis in 2008, with an emphasis on open source, Linux, virtualization, SDN, containers, data storage and related topics. He also teaches history at a major university in Washington, D.C. He occasionally combines these interests by writing about the history of software. His book on this topic, “For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution,” is forthcoming with MIT Press.

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