Rumors about the FBI shutting down the Internet on March 8th.
Rumors about the FBI shutting down the Internet on March 8th.
I've heard these rumors and while they're partially true, they've been mixed with a lot of fear and disinformation. Basically, a virus infected millions of computers that let hackers control what people see on the Internet. This is through something called the Domain Name Server (DNS) system, and the infected computers were redirected to whichever sites the hackers wanted people to see. Then a few months ago, the FBI managed to shut down the operation and instead of turning off the hacker's DNS server, which would have broken the Internet connections of millions of people, they replaced it with their own DNS servers so people would still have access to the Internet.