Search for extraterrestrial life ( SETI) uses spare computing power from idle PC’s ( and macs ) and uses them to data crunch to search for life .
This is done by networking over the net.
Made we wonder…Islamists cranks are using the net for recruitment …a weapon to harm us all…why can’t we take them down.We could have denial of service software attack bots on idle PC’s that bring them down.Deny them cyberspace at least.
One of the reasons we don’t see this is that these sites are like honeypots for cranks and the Intelligence services like to keep a tab on whats ‘going’ on..the chatter and chatters .So they are never publicised by anyone.
Then that got me thinking…what if I was a veggie and hated McDonalds ..or an Anti-Zionist and hated Israel …or an environmentalist and hated XYZ furniture maker etc etc…………..I wonder how easy it be to make an app from which you select all your ‘hates’ and then the app created a denial of service attacks on those particular sites/ server.
If everyone had this app….it would be very powerful.We could democratically , take down , cyberwise , anyone we hated.
The flip is….because this has to happen …it will happen….is that the internet will divide.
Into a left leaning free zone ..anti-dictatorship , environmentally aware , veggie , freedom loving wild west
AND a corporate right wing web that is a comfort zone for the opposites …firewalled by a pay-for-web that prevents denial -of -service attacks through the deterrence of sheer expense.
This really is the first place you heard this one.
