G-20 : Dernier tango à Buenos Aires… Par Guillaume Berlat
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/g-20-dernier-tango-a-buenos-aires-par-guillaume-berlat
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Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - Lawfare
►https://www.lawfareblog.com/someone-learning-how-take-down-internetBy Bruce Schneier Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 10:00 AM
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses.
What can we do about this? Nothing, really. We don’t know where the attacks come from. The data I see suggests China, an assessment shared by the people I spoke with. On the other hand, it’s possible to disguise the country of origin for these sorts of attacks. The NSA, which has more surveillance in the Internet backbone than everyone else combined, probably has a better idea, but unless the U.S. decides to make an international incident over this, we won’t see any attribution.
But this is happening. And people should know.
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Alors faut-il réserver des nomd de domaine .CN ? Je crains qu’un attaquant de cette envergure se prenne aussi au routeurs BGP et bloque le trafic à ce niveau après avoir fait tomber le DNS.
« Ils ont fait beaucoup d’efforts en ce sens et ont analysé les dépendances entre les réseaux. Ainsi, les requêtes vers des domaines en .CN ne passent plus par la racine mais par des serveurs contrôlés par le gouvernement », détaille Stéphane Bortzmeyer.
Le jour où les serveurs racine planteront, les Chinois pourront donc toujours consulter leurs services Web nationaux. En France, en revanche, ce ne sera pas le cas.
Tout d’un coup en se rend compte de l’impact potentiel des réseau du type mesh et des initiatives qui veulent rendre l’internet à ses utilisateurs.
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@francoiscarmignola1 Article ridicule, écrit par des ignorants complets (confondre une config DHCP avec un changement fait par Chrome, faut le faire...)
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Tiens, je découvre le modèle économique d’open root (►http://www.open-root.eu) donc de Savoir-Faire, SAS. Intéressant mais je ne suis pas assez spécialiste pour savoir si ca tient debout techniquement et politiquement. Et je ne vois pas exactement l’utilité de l’affaire - sachant que chacun peut déjà créer ses propres réseaux virtuels qui se superposent à la structure de l’internet officiel.
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@francoiscarmignola1 Je maintiens que l’article cité est ridicule et écrit par des ignorants. Les Légions d’honneur ne m’impressionnent pas.
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@klaus Escroquerie classique : on crée un espace de nommage (que personne n’utilise) et on y vend des noms.
Techniquement, on ne sait même pas quels sont les serveurs racine d’Open Root (le plus vraisemblable est qu’il n’y en a pas).
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@francoiscarmignola1 L’article en question ne portait pas sur les racines soi-disant ouvertes mais sur une affirmation sur ce que faisait Google. Affirmation fausse, ce que chacun peut vérifier, défendue avfec des arguments qui montrent une complète ignorance du DNS (et de DHCP).
Sur les racines soi-disant ouvertes, voir ▻http://www.bortzmeyer.org/racines-alternatives.html
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@francoiscarmignola1 Oui. Ceci dit, avant d’essayer de comprendre les textes d’OpenRoot, il faut se rappeler la sagesse des experts « cela prend dix fois plus de temps pour réfuter les conneries que pour les produire » Voilà pourquoi je n’essaie pas de tout corriger.
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Taking down the internet: possible but how probable?
▻http://www.csoonline.com/article/3127779/security/taking-down-the-internet-possible-but-how-probable.html
[Bruce Schneier] added that since his blog post, he has heard from three other companies that support the Internet’s “backbone,” and they have also told him they are seeing same thing.
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There is little disagreement, however, that a massive DDoS attack could disable portions, or even all, of the internet for some period of time.
Kaminsky called Schneider a “highly credible source,” and said he believes some hackers actually can take down the internet, in part because, “the damage from cyberattacks keeps growing and the risk perceived by attackers keeps shrinking.”
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[Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsighted Security] said he thinks Schneier needed to be much more precise about what he meant about taking down the internet. “Down for who, and for how long?” he asked. “There’s no way to break the internet permanently, since the same activities that gave rise to it and which reinvent it every day will eventually recreate a new infrastructure that works mostly the same way the old one did.”
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Schneier said he agrees with much of that. “I’m not convinced it will go down,” he said, “and if it does, it will be temporary. A DDoS attack needs the internet to work. It eventually eats its own tail.”
But even a temporary takedown could cause great damage, Vixie said. “In a thought experiment, a bunch of us got together and brainstormed ways to make the internet unavailable to the G-20 for 72 hours.
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Some comments on Schneier’s blog have suggested that the DDoS attack isn’t the real attack – that it is meant to be the digital version of “covering fire,” so the hackers can get something like an advanced persistent threat (APT) into a system without detection.
“I thought of that,” Schneider said, “but I didn’t write about it because it would be too speculative.”
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Globalization Hits a Wall - Bloomberg View
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-07/globalization-hits-a-wall
Credit : russelstreet/FlickrFor the first time since early 2014, the dollar value of goods imported and exported by the G-20 countries actually grew a little in the second quarter of this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported last week.
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The world trade volume index maintained by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis fell 0.7 percent in the second quarter. […]
By this metric, global trade has been sputtering since early 2015, and the sputtering has been getting worse lately, not better.
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There are lots of possible explanations, some of which I have explored before in this column. China, which drove the last decade of globalization, is trying to rebalance its economy toward services and domestic consumption. Automation is reducing the importance of labor-cost differences between countries, and manufacturers are rediscovering that it can be better to make products near customers rather than across the world. Flows of data and information are supplanting flows of goods and money. And it just seems obvious that global trade’s share of GDP couldn’t keep increasing forever. There is a limit to how globalized the global economy needs to be.J’aime bien l’illustration « du mur de la globalisation » ci-dessus qui n’est pas dans l’article original mais dans sa reprise par gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/globalization-world-economy-hits-wall -
Istanbul could face electricity cuts if big investments not made
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/istanbul-could-face-electricity-cuts-if-big-investments-not-made-Istanbul could face a serious electricity shortage over the next couple of years unless necessary investments are made, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak told journalists flying with him from Beijing to Ankara after a meeting of G-20 energy ministers.
“If required investments to renew the outmoded infrastructure are not made immediately, Istanbul will face serious power cuts in the next three to five years. We have been carrying large amounts of electricity from Anatolia and the Black Sea region to Istanbul, which poses a big risk,” Albayrak said, daily Milliyet reported on July 4.
He added that the Marmara region, where Istanbul is located, consumes a third of Turkey’s total electricity use.
The government will open new tenders in the upcoming period to gradually increase the use of local coal reserves in Turkey’s electricity production, Albayrak said.“Some claim that Turkey is turning to coal reserves at a time when the world is turning to renewables. But it should be remembered that the share of the use of coal reserves in Turkey is just 13 percent, which is much lower than the world average of 35-40 percent,” he added.
The energy minister said the aim was to make new coal-fired power plants reach capacities of more than 4,000 megawatts (MW).
The government had recently stated that 85 percent of Turkey’s electricity infrastructure will be modernized over the next five years, with an investment of around 18 billion Turkish Liras.
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Syrian peace process is taking wings – Indian Punchline - By M K Bhadrakumar– November 15, 2015
▻http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2015/11/15/syrian-peace-process-is-taking-wingsThe terrorist strikes in Paris on Friday doubtless administered a shock therapy to the International Syria Support Group [ISSG] meeting in Vienna. The communiqué issued after the meeting on Saturday covered more ground than one would have expected. The document candidly admits that “a unanimous sense of urgency” prevailed during the “constructive dialogue” in Vienna with a view to “accelerate an end” to the Syrian conflict.
The UN secretary-general’s special envoy on Syria Steffan de Mistura, who is an accomplished diplomat, actually used the expression “critical mass” to sum up the outcome of Sunday’s discussions. A plan of action has been drawn up by the ISSG with a definite timeline. Most important, the United Nations Security Council is getting ready to monitor the action plan. Principally, the plan envisages that:
– A peace process involving the Syrian government and opposition representatives will formally commence on 1st January 2016;
– Simultaneously, there will be a nation-wide ceasefire in Syria, which will be monitored by a UN-endorsed ceasefire monitoring mission;
– Meanwhile, confidence-building measures will be taken, especially to ensure “expeditious humanitarian access”;
– On a parallel track, Jordan has been tasked with drawing up a list of irreconcilable extremist groups in addition to the Islamic State and Nusra Front;
– The Syrian-led peace process will establish by end-June 2016 a “credible, inclusive, non-sectarian governance” (read transition) and “set a schedule and process” for drafting a new constitution;
– Free and fair elections as per the new constitution will be held under UN supervision “within 18 months” in which “all Syrians, including the diaspora” will be eligible to participate.Once again, the fate of President Bashar Al-Assad has been sidestepped. Most western analysts tend to see it as a no-go area that diplomats fear to tread. But is it necessarily so? The point is, an overriding principle has now been accepted, namely, it will be entirely up to the Syrian people to accept or reject the new leadership.
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Also, it has been decided to induct the Organization of Islamic Conference into the ISSG. Taken together, this shift opens the way for Islamic parties (such as Muslim Brotherhood) to participate in the future elections under the new constitution. To be sure, this signifies a major concession to Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. (...)-
US-Russia trust deficit harms Syrian peace plan
By M K Bhadrakumar – November 16, 2015
▻http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2015/11/16/us-russia-trust-deficit-harms-syrian-peace-planU.S. President Barack Obama, left, speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, prior to the opening session of the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 15 2015. The 2015 G-20 Leaders…_
Who says photo-journalism is a dying art? The Kremlin pool photo by the Russian news agency Sputnik International on the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama Sunday evening in Belek on the Turkish Riviera flashed the news worldwide more effectively than any wordsmith could have done that the two big powers have edged closer than ever before to each other to fight the Islamic State [IS].The image of the two presidents, their first since Moscow launched the military operations in Syria, hunched towards each other engaged in animated conversation, was a welcome change from the frigid body language of their previous meetings generally. The big question is whether setting aside other differences, including some important differences, they are truly willing to endorse the first steps towards peace in Syria.
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Police Break Bad: 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/police-break-bad-2010-g20-toronto-summit-protestsThe 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests began one week ahead of the summit of the leaders of the G-20 on 26-27 June in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The protests were for various causes, including...
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Increased tensions at G-20, IMF meetings - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/22/econ-a22.html
Increased tensions at G-20, IMF meetings
By Nick Beams
22 April 2013Last weekend’s meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the G-20 saw further calls for policies to stimulate global economic growth. There were no concrete measures advanced to implement such a program, however, amid deepening divisions among the major powers.
While the discussions were not characterised by the air of crisis that accompanied some recent meetings, they were nonetheless dominated by the realisation that there is no economic recovery in sight and, instead, a deepening trend of stagnation and slump.
Lire ausi l’article de l’ancien ministre des affaires norvégien, Jonas Gahr Støre, paru dans le Monde diplomatique en 2012 :
