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Internet Kill Switch

Edgy DC Jun 19 2010 08:20 PM

Really?

A Boy Named Seo Jun 19 2010 08:27 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch

Ridiculous. Article sez it was tried before and shot down. Gotta be again. How badly would poor Rick Sanchez at CNN freak out if his twitter and shit got turned off?

Fman99 Jun 19 2010 08:36 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch

Where am I going to make cock jokes? Out in a field somewhere? Fuck.

Kong76 Jun 19 2010 08:37 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch

Why not? If there is really some kind of internet threat to to national security ie a total collapse of some markets or an attack on a couple of major banks ... just shut it off. It's not much different than shutting down the airspace after a terrorist attack. They know something's coming, and the internet is a gem of a place to pull it off ...

metirish Jun 19 2010 09:16 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 19 2010 09:47 PM

[quote="Kong76":231ip01o]Why not? If there is really some kind of internet threat to to national security ie a total collapse of some markets or an attack on a couple of major banks ... just shut it off. ..[/quote:231ip01o] Yeah , we wouldn't want some major banks to get all fucked up and collapse. I'm against it , when it was conceived it was based a few principals , no one should own it , no nation/person/organization would have control over who can use it or control its content. Of course plenty of people think it's nothing but a " big brother" thing now anyway and that everything we do online is recorded and that Google is part of NSA.

A Boy Named Seo Jun 19 2010 09:17 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch

Yah, it's totally different, I think. Not everybody in the country (and world) is trying to use airspace to do something as basic as communicate when it gets shutdown. I wonder what the hell would happen to global markets if America went black from the internet for a few hours? Bad, I bet. Imagine just how much shit could go wrong in "turning off the internet". I'd bet there'd be scores of govt. employees on both secured and unsecured networks who lose data and/or voice communications that would leave them powerless to fight whatever thing off they were supposed to be fighting. That's to say nothing of Johnny Lunchbuckets everywhere trying to communicate w/ loved ones and getting jack shit. We're all skyping and tweeting and facebooking and lets not forget how heavily cellular networks are married to internet backbones. It'd be insane. Shut off internet pipes and I bet you'll cripple mobile networks and of course millions of new-style landlines running VOIP. How many people have old skool POTS lines at home anymore? And though a lot of my griping would be worst-case kinda stuff, even if they found a threat on, say a COX network or something, all these telecoms lease lines from one another and peer with one another and it'd be really really really really really hard to just shut only 1 of em "off". There's a lot the govt. isn't really great at, and I could see this pretty much being one of those. Where were you the last time something dastardly went down? Probably right here with me.

metirish Jun 19 2010 09:32 PM Re: Internet Kill Switch

Estonia , a country very heavily wired for the internet was attacked a few years ago and was basically shut down for weeks. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/ma ... es3.russia

Kong76 Jun 20 2010 08:03 AM Re: Internet Kill Switch

[quote="A Boy Named Seo":qg7ln0il]Where were you the last time something dastardly went down? Probably right here with me.[/quote:qg7ln0il] To Shea

Frayed Knot Jun 20 2010 08:38 AM Re: Internet Kill Switch

"Any private company reliant on "the Internet, the telephone system, or any other component of the U.S. 'information infrastructure'" " In other words, the entire county " would be "subject to command" by the NCCC, and some would be required to engage in "information sharing" with the agency " Oh good, for a minute there I thought this might be something with potential for abuse.

MFS62 Jun 20 2010 09:28 AM Re: Internet Kill Switch

[quote="Frayed Knot":2n8w4r99] Oh good, for a minute there I thought this might be something with potential for abuse.[/quote:2n8w4r99] And the power to shut down specific websites will never be subject to abuse. Right? OK, so China has been doing this kind of stuff recently, so this didn't come as a big surprise. The only thing shocking is that they didn't name the new agency the "Ministry of Truth". Later