Posted on 10/28/2010 7:30:52 AM PDT by MissTed
Has Julian Asange of Wikileaks weighed in on this?
In a real world, our president would be a natural-born American of American parents, proud of all legal citizens of the 57 United States of America, and with American interests at heart.
Sadly, he isn’t. He ISN’T a natural-born citizen, he ISN’T proud of ALL our LEGAL citizens, and he DOESN’T have our country’s best interest at heart. He’d use the ‘kill switch’ to destroy freedom of speech and shut down patriotic American’s voices through sites LIKE FREE REPUBLIC .
Oh...and there are only 50 states, no matter we he says.
Have they been testing the kill switch on FReeRepublic last week????
I’d say these are the same Americans who aren’t opposed to net neutrality.
Let’s re-phrrase that question
Would the majority of liberals be OK with President Sarah Palin having an internet kill switch?
Rule 2: In order for Rule 1 to kick in, I would have to KNOW, not simply be assured by the government, that it was in fact necessary and not simply a power play by a government bent on dominating their erstwhile masters and taking away any means they might have to defend themselves against that domination.
I can't imagine the circumstances under which rule 2 could EVER be satisfied.
Foreign nukes falling from the sky would satisfy me for rule #2, but I can't imagine it mattering after that.
/johnny
My crystal ball says that there will be a devastating cyber attack on the US october 2012, that will cause the internet to be closed down, except for financial institutions and military for a 2 month period.
The first sentence says it all.
too many ignorant people
No. Probably just testing out their election-day denial of service attacks against FR.
I’ll bet the poll results would be different AFTER peoples’ online apps and social networks and email “freeze” for a couple of days.
This’d be the kill switch for the Internet that has been built out of a design that owes its existence to a DARPA project that was set up to create redundant paths of communication between sites, so that even in the event of global thermonuclear war taking out 40% of the continental United States infastructure, telecoms traffic would just route its way around the missing bits.
And now with over 135,000 routers on the American internet backbone, not all of them under government control, AND failover / load balanced systems, and multilayered hardware (not to mention bespoke firmware stripping out default admin accounts and so on, on-demand manual dialup connections, redundant microwave links, fiber-optic links through Faraday cages to mitigate EMP damage, and so on), people actually think that such a thing as a kill switch is even viable?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Sounds like something Gene Roddenberry might’ve jotted down on his “Things to get Commander Data to do” list. But I guess he must’ve crossed it out on account of the Holodeck being more believable.
Mockery aside, even if you could script something to bomb out all those routers, it’d take time for the signal to propagate. Long enough for any sensible geek to pull the plug out and figure out a way round the problem.
I’ve read the legislation, and I still can’t find the “kill switch” part of it. If someone can, please tell me where it is.
When nukes are falling, how do you know if they're foreign?
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