An Internet Kill Switch ?

[Bob Bruhns]

Who makes this stuff up?  The USA could never have had a global internet 
kill switch anyway.  The way the internet works, all anybody needs is a 
routing network and name servers (and guess what, they use them every day).

Oh, the USA flipped their switch?  That just means that a bunch of OC 
lines from the USA won't work any more.  All of the other ones would 
still be zipping along.  The US would be cutting off its internet, to 
spite its detractors.  It would take a coordinated effort of all of our 
herd-of-cats world governments to make the whole global internet stop 
working.  Or maybe, if one group MAKES all of the routers, then some 
Trojan self-destruct could be built in.  That would mess up the 
internet... for a while.

But government leaders don't understand that stuff, and either do the 
usual consumers of news.

It might be interesting to shut down all public North American internet 
systems now and then.  We would see how many supposedly super-secure 
isolated networks actually run through it.  Will the next big super-leak 
come from an ISP in East Podunk?  What really happened to Flight 800, 
anyhow?  And who is in Jimmy Hoffa's tomb?

    Bob, WA3WDR


On 6/20/2013 3:27 AM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
http://www.infowars.com/russian-cyberspace-head-calls-for-internet-kill-switch/