MDMAniac on 08 April 2011
| highwaystar101 said: I know that I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the internet break up a single piece of information, send it along many routes and then reform the information at the end? I thought that it was done this way so that one cable being broken shouldn't affect the internet, and that was one of the main features of it's structure. |
It's a myth. In theory, yes. But in practice one could just blast off transatlantic cable to cut off America from the world, just for instance. Look for it in the list of US strategic sites which was wikileaked last year.
