CNN ran a mock up attack to the USA infrastructure with some reps of the government. The stuff was flawed in many ways, but I think the outcome of it, after each representative of the government arguing what the president can do and cannot do, was to solve the issue, the infrastructure providers needed to be involved, and asked "nicely" to help fix the problem, and not raided with a kill switch threat...or army personnel taking over all the knobs... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon@cox.net> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, 18 July, 2010 5:07:34 PM Subject: [SPAM] Re: Internet Kill Switch. On 7/17/2010 23:59, Larry Sheldon wrote:
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Highlights: "The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet ... figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web ..." [Web = Internet] Jay Rockefeller: “Would it had been better if we’d have never invented the Internet?” [Is thid pile on Al Gore Month?] "The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the bill..." -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml