Re: Presidential Internet Kill Switch

["Adriel T. Desautels" <ad_lists () netragard com>]

Right,
        So what happens when someone pwns the switch?


On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon &  
Hannah wrote:

> 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]
>
> ======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
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