----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Hilliard" <n...@foobar.org>
> Subject: Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch > On 07/02/2011 21:53, Josh Smith wrote: > > I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my > > neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge. Getting anything > > much beyond that up and running would be a stretch. > > I can't help noticing some irony in seeing one nanog thread about > working around a supposed government internet kill switch by using wireless > transmission kit, and another about the US Navy reputedly trashing > connectivity in an entire country by, uh, jamming wireless > transmission links. Irony != coincidence. One is the government interrupting communications, and the other one is ... the government interrupting communications. Oh look: those even came out in the same character positions. :-) Cheers, -- jra