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How can leaders of a country like Russia or Iran or whomever shut down the internet? Is there not some hacker or cracker way to open it back up? (lemmy.world)
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[-] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 points 9 months ago

A layer 3 firewall whitelist can be bypassed with MAC spoofing or duplication, ARP table poisoning, DHCP lease timestamp forging?

[-] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe If you can get to it. Power down all the trunk ports but the palace/military/etc.

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