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Civilization has proven very resilient in the face of one of its hidden SPOFs being destroyed/attacked. The same is true for two and three of those SPOFs being damaged at the same time.

I'm not convinced there wouldn't be a system degradation cliff after that point of 3+ SPOFs being attacked, e.g. a GPS issue, a massive BGP hack, Tier 3 Comm. or equivalent outage, and a DNS issue--all around the same time.

That "cliff" could cause a biblical amount of damage.

I'm sure those could all be mitigated, but the idea of them failing all at once, even coincidentally, is terrifying.




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