Breaking: the Skies are reopening or are they?
What happened and what is happening?
When the complex is simple, everything simple becomes complex. War is like that.
First, the complex. Secretary Duffy and Secretary Mullins made this problem too complex. I felt for them watching their press conference from the WH.
What is a TDM Router? It is a Time Domain Multiplexing Router. It is old school, analog technology. A TDM router is essentially a Digital Traffic Cop who stands at a Digital Traffic Stop and routes Digital Traffic (data) to ensure it goes in the right direction. Stated simply, the Digital Cop directs the Digital Traffic (data) to go right, go left, go up, go down, go forward, go back, etc.
If that TDM Router “Digital Traffic Cop” gets overwhelmed it stops functioning properly. Imagine a cop in the middle of Times Square, New York City on New Year’s Eve (this “outage” was that bad).
What likely happened?
Until proven otherwise, not some presser by our government, I firmly believe this was a DDOS attack. This is what was being described by two smart cabinet officials who clearly did not understand the technical nature of what happened.
What was being described was a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. Essentially the Digital Traffic Cop was overwhelmed by flooding that Cop’s Digital Traffic circle with data that the Digital Cop could not handle. When that Digital Cop figured it out and the Digital Traffic (data) managed to get through, the attack would rapidly send the Digital Cars (data) to another vulnerability point (and try to find another Digital Cop to overwhelm). All of this happens at lightning speed.
These Digital Traffic Cops (Routers) are overwhelmed with Digital Traffic (data). In the world of cyber attacks, this is essentially what a denial of service attack is.
These are classic "ping" attacks. Just keep sending trillions of pings (Digital Traffic) to vulnerability points, and when they try to reset the router (help the Digital Cop) and block the attack, the Digital Traffic moves to another attack vector on the network. In the world of Artificial Intelligence (or SI, Super Intelligence), decisions are made or can be made by non-humans.
It is my opinion and the opinion of other technical wizards I know, that these “TDM Routers”, even those made in the 1980's were bullet proof. They don't just "fail" unless they burn up, power is shut off, or they are overwhelmed by DDOS Attacks. These routers (Digital Traffic Cops) are old school and do NOT have onboard logic (knowledge) to discriminate between trillions of pings in a DDOS attack or actual FAA air traffic control data (essentially when the Digital Cop is overwhelmed, it is almost impossible to discriminate between the oncoming Digital Traffic).
These old "iron pumpers" as sometimes referred to, simply keep doing what they believe they’re directed to do. They keep chugging away by sending the Digital Traffic along the Digital Highway.
In summary, the Digital Traffic Cop gets attacked relentlessly with massive volumes of Digital Traffic (data), gets immediately overwhelmed, then the real data ends up getting placed in a queue protocol (first in, first out — FIFO [not FAFO].
It is my opinion that this could have been a hostile nation state attack. I believe the administration still needs to assure the public that our government has everything under control. The sky unlike the sea is less forgiving.
Now is the time to bring sense to the chaos and not try to overcomplicate our already complicated lives. All Americans want to know is are we relatively safe and secure in our homes, our communities and our country?
Never forget to pray either. That always helps me in times like these.
