Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

That’s just a necessary hazard that comes with providing free analysis to the public.

Also, let's just assume that a bad actor would have access to reasonably sized and geographically distributed botnet... they could easily run their own global connectivity tests to get a good picture of what the actual impact of their actions were.

Is it any information the Russians (I presume you mean) don't have yet? It's naive to think they don't understand how the internet works, given they've been doing active cyber warfare for a long time now.

to be fair, the Kremlin usually gets it before it reaches number 10 [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/1KjHYsDoLyw?si=ji8xCWnJoBS-FXbc

We all have access to such a botnet. (And we should probably all participate in it, too.)

https://atlas.ripe.net/

That's cool, thanks for sharing. Guess I know what I have to set up next.