I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't want our government to be able to pull this business that Egypt pulled to quell rebellion by shutting off the Internet in the entire country (which is stupid and didn't work, anyway.)
On the other hand, what if we had some kind of massive cyber attack against our country and the best way to contain the damage was to ask individual ISP's to shut down some or all traffic? (the way the CDC might quarantine a virus outbreak in a city by preventing traffic in or out.) A few years ago, I might have considered this kind of cyber attack science fiction but with the very successful attack by Stuxnet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet>, I don't consider this just a wild idea but a pretty real concern. Chris On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Russ Crawford <russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com>wrote: > Any opinions on an Internet kill switch? > > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/what-the-experts-think-about-the-viability-of-an-internet-kill-switch/5034?tag=nl.e036 > > text of Section 1016 of H.R.3162 (USA Patriot Act) > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c107:1:./temp/~c107jJ2pkO:e415432: > > I am particularly _amused_ by the title of subsection (d): > > "ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL COMPETENCE FOR CRITICAL > INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION" > > "Competence" of Federal bureaucracy? Would George Carlin call this an > oxymoron? > -- > Russ Crawford > <+16155064070>615/506-4070 <+16155064070> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
