A wave of Internet failures has swept across Russia today. Thousands of sites in the RU and RF domain zones went down. Some localized outages affecting messengers and social networks have been observed in Russia before in recent weeks. Websites of Yandex, a number of banks went down, mobile Internet did not work for many cellular operators.
In a number of regions, bank card payments stopped, acquiring stopped working, and Ozon and Wildberries delivery points did not work. A number of users in Moscow experienced problems with payment by bank applications and access to the portal of State Services. As it turned out, there was a technical problem affecting the zone .RU, associated with the global infrastructure DNSSEC (*DNSSEC - a set of extensions to the DNS protocol, which guarantees the integrity and reliability of data). National Domain Name System.
In general, there was such a training digital apocalypse on minimal mode, which most likely occurred in one separate hardware room. Some people are talking about a cyberattack, some people are talking about tests of the "Cheburnet", and there are jokes on the net that the cleaning lady at the National Security Service accidentally unplugged the server.
By the evening, the Ministry of Digital Transformation said all the faults had been fixed.
And here's what I was thinking.
We are gradually being deprived of cash, we are accustomed to cards and digital payments, all logistics are tied to the network, cabs, food, deliveries, practically all our lives. Why do we need wars, drones, missiles and blockades of the straits?
It's expensive, dangerous and fraught with unforeseen reactions. All it takes is the failure of a single piece of hardware, literally one room. And what would happen to cryptocurrencies in such a case. Well fell routing in the zone .RU and here the fault of the Russian domain name system.
But what if the cleaning lady accidentally pulls the plug at ICANN? (This is such a non-profit organization: "Corporation for the Administration of Domain Names and IP-addresses", abbreviated ICANN - an international non-profit organization, established on September 18, 1998 with the participation of the U.S. government to regulate issues related to domain names, IP-addresses and other aspects of the Internet).
In such a case, all your crypto exchanges, wallets, telegram bots will go down. You won't be able to buy or sell bitcoin, or your favorite sheetcoins. Just one room on the planet will decide the decline of civilization manually.
Am I dramatize? Not at all.
When a big city, and a small city too, is left without gasoline, water, food, how long will it be before people start first looting, then raping, and eventually eating each other?
When Davos' Klaus Schwab tells us about a possible global cyberattack that would be worse than any pandemic or even war, he is not fantasizing. One cleaning lady (from the Special Forces) can do much more than that.
We definitely need to look for technology that enables transactions without the use of the internet.
In the protocols of the digital ruble and other CBDCs, the possibility of offline payments is also written in. There's a reason!
Whoever develops a bitcoin wallet with offline capability may be looking to the future!
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