Tom, Rest assured I'll defend public infrastructures up until cold. Though I'm always on for a good joke, and just wanted to point out induced dependencies that weakens most IT setups. What worries me is unforeseen consequences of the small pieces of infrastructure or software that everyone took for granted, and that could just vanish overnight, over a targeted attack or geopolitical situation for example. Sorry if it looked like a real suggestion. The world is so trumped by idiocracy it's getting harder and harder to distinguish satire from the truth. Better assume stupid than malignant ©®™ Hanlon. Best regards, Le 15/08/2025 à 18:13, Tom Beecher a écrit :
I'll restate with a more adult argument instead of snark.
I completely support protests to voice displeasure. ( Non-violent ones of course. )
I do NOT support turning off bits of internet infrastructure to bring attention to a thing being protested, or as part of the protest itself. Nobody should support doing this. Ever. In my view even suggesting it is bad.
If your suggestion was mostly in jest, then I missed that and I apologize for the strong reply. If you were actually shooting your shot to have this happen, I would urge you to seriously consider what the consequences of that would be.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM Jérôme Nicolle <jerome@ceriz.fr <mailto:jerome@ceriz.fr>> wrote:
Hi Tom,
Le 15/08/2025 à 16:58, Tom Beecher a écrit : > Asking Google to inject themselves into protests about the French budget > takes some pretty massive balls. Almost impressive.
There's a saying here : "Forget you have no chance, go on with it. If misunderstood, it could work."
Words to live by. Also, takes a wheelbarrow.
Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZo-xKxuLY <https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZo-xKxuLY>
Best regards,
P.S: on a more serious note, such an event as gDNS going down would most certainly create havoc. It is run by trained professionals, don't try this at home.
-- Jérôme Nicolle +33 6 19 31 27 14
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