Dear Ish, Agreed but am not refereeing to ordinary users here. I was talking about getting desperate news out in a shutdown situation. AK
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:31 PM Ish Sookun <ish.soo...@lasentinelle.mu> wrote: > Hi Abdulkarim, > > On 4/30/19 9:40 PM, ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE wrote: > > > > Then my point about the "back door". > > What I mean is that what we know about the internet today is a richly > > interconnected network without a single killer switch. The government > > can only speak to ISP's within their domain to shut down the internet > > within a country but there are other ways of bypassing that because of > > the interconnections. This can be bypassing local connections or even > > via the intranet of companies and so on. There are ways around it but > > not ideal. I mentioned that just so that we know that there is no single > > killer switch in a govermnet shutdown situation. > > > > Thank you for the clarification. > > However, I look at it in a simple way. If I am an ordinary internet user > and my ISP cuts my internet access following a government order, then I > do not see an alternative that will allow me to access websites. For > example, if there is an internet shutdown in Mauritius I will not be > able to access www.afrinic.net. > > Regards, > > Ish Sookun > -- Website <http://www.unilorin.edu.ng>, Weekly Bulletin <http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/index.php/bulletin> UGPortal <http://uilugportal.unilorin.edu.ng/> PGPortal <https://uilpgportal.unilorin.edu.ng/>
_______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss