I honestly think Cisco is the Bridge. What if you burned the bridge. If you got rid of everyone on your chart, you would hardly make a dent in the real internet, but if you had a virus or backdoor for the Cisco routers, Man you could even take out the dark web. You still couldn't take out bitcoin but some of the other cryptos could be put on ice too.
Someone is at the transport layer copying every packet, we know that (NSA) but does someone have a control mechanism to bring the system under control, or down. Think Great firewall of China. You know they have something like that.
The bad guys may be
1) trying to provoke a response from Iran
2)**THIS ONE**** HAVE IRAN AS A PLAUSIBLE SCAPEGOAT WHEN THEY DO A SIMILAR ATTACK ON THE US FINANCIAL, POWER, AND COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE.
Please give us a high profile arrest or a big unsealed indictment. We want to see justice.
why don't we call them and tell them what we think they should say. If they are smart they will be making up for having taken his money by destroying him.
The opposition has pictures of some of these guys raping kids. How do you compete with that?