The besieged country's complex internet infrastructure has evolved to promote resiliency.
Internet shutdowns, as a rule, are enacted by governments with the ability to order internet service providers to disconnect, throttle, or restrict access to the internet. Staging a shutdown as an external attacker is much harder to pull off.
Ukraine’s resilience, however, extends beyond the sheer number of providers. If cyberattacks do not work to take down an ISP, a Russian military determined to disconnect Ukraine might decide to just strike the connectivity infrastructure by bombing server rooms or cutting off fiber optics cables. As a matter of fact, a possible—if unconfirmed—explanation for Thursday’s outage is that. But it is unclear if a more methodical targeting of network equipment would result in a total internet blackout.
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