Completely hypothetical question: If one were to successfully

>>58939042
Just pull the plug

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the meme to end all memes

>>58939042
Make it obsolete.
[spoiler]Cause Third Impact.[/spoiler]

The most viable way is to somehow engineer a means of corrupting all data accessible through the internet in a way that nobody can initially detect. Then the internet would be a bunch of unreadable too difficult to repair garbled mess

>>58939042
Acquire nukes. Then blow them up in the atmosphere above largest cities on earth and data centres

>>58939042
the idea was to be resilient against a nuclear attack.
be more devastating than that.

>>58939042
It would probably require a combination of all the most severe attacks we've seen in the last few years, in the correct order, at the correct scale, on the correct priority targets.
So far we know the following types of threats already exist and have been used:
1. Stuxnet/Flame and other SCADA worms
2. "IoT" botnets capable of massive amplified DDoS attacks
3. Ransomware using effectively unbreakable encryption
4. Network device firmware flashers (persistent router malware)
Then it's just a matter of creating an adaptive malware suite that can somehow detect when it is about to be discovered and go dormant before reactivating after some kind of trigger.

I would go about it something like this:
>Create Mirai type botnet that sits dormant and will be used to distribute more advanced malware like ransomware against more secured machines
>Create worldwide mesh network of command and control servers that only become active when other servers a few hops away come under attack
>Botnets spread SCADA worms to internet exchange points and other major internet backbones for physical damage
>Botnets spread router malware and infected network devices become new C&C nodes
>Infected network devices spread ransomware to end devices
>Botnets begin DDoSing any functioning/non-infected ISPs and other communication chokepoints
>Once communication has nearly ceased between all devices (i.e. hop count is very low, IPs are unreachable, or another trigger), ransomware on all devices activates and bricks everything

Bonuses would be SCADA infection in data trunks actually working and causing damage, finding enough firmware exploits in routers to have a large botnet of persistently infected devices, and having all these devices working together to prioritize the biggest threats like governments, large security companies, and internet providers. Also somehow physically destroying the undersea cables would wreak havoc.

Basically create an internet hydra too persistent to die.

Go for the electricity supply.
A massive solar flare should do it. I mean, we haven't had one large enough to melt power lines since like 1870

>>58941055
Or you can just convince the ISIL guys that cutting fiber optic cables is the most effective way of bringing about the new Caliphate.

>>58939042
http://gizmodo.com/5912383/how-to-destroy-the-internet

>>58939042
You're too late, m8. Internet has been dead for a while.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_denial-of-service_attacks_on_root_nameservers
You get the root servers but good luck trying to actually make the 13 servers and the mirrors unusable.

>>58939953
No it wasn't lol

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Probably just dropping it would break it desu

>>58939042

It would be very hard to kill.

But if you destroyed most of the major ocean fiber lines you'd really fuck shit up for a while

World wide EMP or solar flare?

>>58941055
this is something only an AI could do realistically.
probably why all those geeks on tech shows and stephen hawking are always so worried about evil AI running rampant.

>>58941055
Wouldn't a DDOS of this scale effectively trip over its own shoelaces? It relies on the very infrastructure it attempts to destroy.