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How Advanced Technology Can Save Us From Future Internet Shutdowns

An internet shutdown in the Northeastern U.S. happened roughly a week ago, and the experts are looking for ways to prevent this attack from ever happening again.

Websites like Twitter and Spotify were inaccessible for thousands of people following the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) host. DNS, the technical network that converts web address names into numbers, is essentially the “yellow pages” of online addresses.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/30/how-advanced-technology-can-save-us-from-future-internet-shutdowns/#ixzz4TusqgPvQ

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