..in the 'developed' world.
Given the apparent ease with which they shut down a large part of Egypt's internet infrastructure it occurred to me that any 'well prepared' government would have contingency plans to shut it down in the event of massive social disorder. Given also that it was originally designed so that signals could take multiple routes to their destination in case of military strikes on particular bits of the infrastructure, there seems to be a bit of a contradiction.
So I wonder how easy or hard would it be to shut down the net in say the UK or the USA?
How easy would it be to shut down the internet..
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Just fill it with porn, then it would take forever to find anything without bookmarks.
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Re: How easy would it be to shut down the internet..
Here in the US they introduced a Cybersecurity Act in 2009 that might have granted the president some powers including a limited "kill" switch, but so far it hasn't passed. Looks like it has been reintroduced, so it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
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Thanks for the update. I'm glad it didn't pass, and I certainly hope it doesn't now.maiforpeace wrote:Here in the US they introduced a Cybersecurity Act in 2009 that might have granted the president some powers including a limited "kill" switch, but so far it hasn't passed. Looks like it has been reintroduced, so it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.
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They just phone up the ISPs and ask them to Turn it off .
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Re: How easy would it be to shut down the internet..
yep, that's about it.Feck wrote:They just phone up the ISPs and ask them to Turn it off .
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Re: How easy would it be to shut down the internet..
Or, they could just flood the tubes with traffic like what the American government did to the Wikileaks sites by DDoSing it.
Re: How easy would it be to shut down the internet..
If they tried to shutdown the webz I would just install the backup copy I make every night.
You guys are making a backup copy aren't you?
You guys are making a backup copy aren't you?
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It seems it was quite simple, according to an item on the BBC radio news this morning. Some heavy duty guy in the government had a list of ISPs and phoned them one by one telling them to turn their equipment off 'or else'. Took less than an hour.
Seems to me that this ability in an extremely unhealthy one..in the wrong hands - depending on one's position of course.
Seems to me that this ability in an extremely unhealthy one..in the wrong hands - depending on one's position of course.
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HomerJay wrote:If they tried to shutdown the webz I would just install the backup copy I make every night.
You guys are making a backup copy aren't you?
Of course.
Plus I upload it to my Wuala.
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If they switched off the whole internet except Rationalia (forgetting for the moment the impossibility), I would not notice...
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They've done that. In fact, they've been doing it since the 90s at least.Tero wrote:Just fill it with porn, then it would take forever to find anything without bookmarks.
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Last bit? Are you literally not well?JimC wrote:If they switched off the whole internet except Rationalia (forgetting for the moment the impossibility), I would not notice...
I iz sick puppy...
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No, just trying and failing to humourously self-reference (using trendy words) my tendency to to nothing on-line except be here...Rum wrote:Last bit? Are you literally not well?JimC wrote:If they switched off the whole internet except Rationalia (forgetting for the moment the impossibility), I would not notice...
I iz sick puppy...
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Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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You clearly need to pull yourself together, get a grip and all that sort of thing young man!JimC wrote:No, just trying and failing to humourously self-reference (using trendy words) my tendency to to nothing on-line except be here...Rum wrote:Last bit? Are you literally not well?JimC wrote:If they switched off the whole internet except Rationalia (forgetting for the moment the impossibility), I would not notice...
I iz sick puppy...
or just
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