10 ways humans could kill the Internet

Earlier this month, GigaOm’s Alistair Croll wrote a terrificly depressing and honest piece about the ways the Internet is changing and, as a result, some of the potential disasters that could bring it to its knees in the future.

Below is Croll’s list of the top “10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die.”

Someone subverts DNS
Zombie networks attack
Massive physical infrastructure failure
Death by a thousand fragments
A really good virus breaks the routers
Updates break how updates work
The Net stops being neutral
The lawyers get involved
Walled gardens
Humans take themselves out

Bottom line for IT leaders

Since the Internet is a mission critical system for doing business, IT leaders should take a general interest in promoting practices that support a stable, neutral, and secure Internet. Some of the issues in this article are a little overblown — such as DNS being subverted and updates breaking updates — but it correctly notes that the Internet is currently facing a number of critical issues that could negatively impact users and businesses. The issues of net neutrality, severe regulation of ISPs and Web hosts, and the protection of the Internet’s physical infrastructure are all extremely important and very timely. (Log on to Techrepublic)

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