Presidential Internet Kill Switch

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Presidential Internet Kill Switch May Still Be Alive 

Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe originally introduced the Cybersecurity
Bill of 2009 to howls of protest over a provision in the legislation that would
give the president the unprecedented authority to shut down the Internet for
national security reasons. Rockefeller and Snowe retreated and redrafted but
still left the issue much in doubt. 

http://web.eweek.com/t?r=2&c=14158&l=37&ctl=46D56:4D1C2A284FF09B59A
223C1268CAFE1CA&kc=EWKNLSTE09222009STR1  

(One of Tom Clancy's [nominal] "Netforce" books was made into a really, really 
bad movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158423/] and, as everyone knows who 
has seen it, the Internet runs through a powerbar with LEDs on it in the [US] 
President's desk.)

"The Internet interprets [legislation] as [line noise] and routes around it."
                                 - John Gilmore, Time, December 1993 [slightly modified]

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