U.S. Government Proposes "Internet Kill Switch"
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Well first off I want to point out that it was just one senator that proposed this and not the entire US government so you might want to save the anti-American rage for later kids.
This proposition might have something to do with a possible "breach" in private government documents by means of wikileaks. It could be unrelated or just a coincidence but here's the link in case you want to check it out.
URL=[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/wikileak-case-echoes-pent_b_613705.htmlurl]
This proposition might have something to do with a possible "breach" in private government documents by means of wikileaks. It could be unrelated or just a coincidence but here's the link in case you want to check it out.
URL=[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/wikileak-case-echoes-pent_b_613705.htmlurl]
I don't think you understand what it's saying, They can't shut down the 'internet' but will shut off all the hosting which is owned within the US.spookydom said:
Also probably shutting down all US Isp, But for all of us Non-US we can still access the internet just not US stuff. Which isnt alot.
First and foremost, that's why you always have at least one standby burried on the drive somewhere.Jack and Calumon said:
Secondly, this would kill access to all the sites that file out of the US to other countries as well. In other words, not only will you not be able to access a sizable group of sites, but when you try to go to CNN to find out why, no luck there either.
Why do I get the feeling that this is like the I.T. Crowd episode where they show Jen the 'internet' and its just a black box with a blinking light. It's pretty clear that these politicians have no idea what they're talking about. They're either trying to put more control on the internet or they've read Neuromancer WAY too many times.
sounds like rhetoric they use to get the Patriot Act to pass. and we all know how constitutional that was is <.<
Well there is only 1 internet... so it is kind of hard to not have the Pentagon connected to the internet. Especially when it needs to be. But what they can do(and have done) is make it so hard to hack that it's like trying to break into Fort Knox while wearing luminescent orange and having only a small stick to defend yourself. Keep in mind though that it still can be done and I still think that the whole kill switch idea is reasonable as long as they aren't trigger happy about it.TheRightToArmBears said:
Totaly a fair point my freind, but that's not what I was trying to put across, If I may quote from the original articlebrunt32 said:
"To counter those potential cyber-shenanigans, the bill would give a newly-formed National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications the authority to monitor the "security status" of private websites, ISPs and other net-related business within the U.S. as well as critical internet components in other countries."
This would effect everybody in the world imo. As you say this would not leave a lot of infroweb for the rest of us. I don't belive anybody should be comfortable with there government having that kind of power.
Lieberman. Don't ever make the mistake of calling the man a democrat. He's a conservative nut job who claims he will caucus with whichever party is most likely to get him re-elected, and then goes right back to doing crap like this. This looks like a power grab to me; protesters organizing via internet? Shut it down. Even if the killswitch is never used, part of the bill is to make it so ISPs have to answer to the government in ways they almost got sued for when they did it to comply with the patriot act. I can't remember if they ever actually did, but I remember President Bush asking for blanket legal immunity for ISPs who did what he asked them to.
Lieberman's stated goal is to stop cyber-attacks, which is the newest scare-mongering strategy. Apparently, the internet is pretty easy to take down; there's some speculation that when several U.S. government websites went down a few years back, it was an attack by North Korea. This winds up in a big segment on the evening news at least once every couple of months. Basically, Lieberman is continuing the Bush era power grabs through fear mongering, and it really pisses me off that he keeps getting re-elected. Especially since, with his claim of caucusing with the democrats, he gives liberals a bad name as the people in favor of censorship and all sorts of other completely anti-liberal things -- when it's really just him and a couple of other DINOs.
Lieberman's stated goal is to stop cyber-attacks, which is the newest scare-mongering strategy. Apparently, the internet is pretty easy to take down; there's some speculation that when several U.S. government websites went down a few years back, it was an attack by North Korea. This winds up in a big segment on the evening news at least once every couple of months. Basically, Lieberman is continuing the Bush era power grabs through fear mongering, and it really pisses me off that he keeps getting re-elected. Especially since, with his claim of caucusing with the democrats, he gives liberals a bad name as the people in favor of censorship and all sorts of other completely anti-liberal things -- when it's really just him and a couple of other DINOs.