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Re: Internet Kill Switch.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Fri Jun 18 01:14:44 2010
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:14:24 +1200 (FJT)
From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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CNN ran a mock up attack to the USA infrastructure with some reps of the go=
vernment.
The stuff was flawed in many ways, but I think the outcome of it, after eac=
h representative of the government arguing what the president can do and ca=
nnot do, was to solve the issue, the infrastructure providers needed to be =
involved, and asked "nicely" to help fix the problem, and not raided with a=
kill switch threat...or army personnel taking over all the knobs...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Sunday, 18 July, 2010 5:07:34 PM
Subject: [SPAM] Re: Internet Kill Switch.
On 7/17/2010 23:59, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down=
-the-internet.html
Highlights:
"The federal government would have =E2=80=9Cabsolute power=E2=80=9D to shut=
down the
Internet ... figurative =E2=80=9Ckill switch=E2=80=9D to seize control of t=
he world wide
web ..." [Web =3D Internet]
Jay Rockefeller: =E2=80=9CWould it had been better if we=E2=80=99d have ne=
ver invented
the Internet?=E2=80=9D [Is thid pile on Al Gore Month?]
"The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the
bill..."
--=20
Somebody should have said:
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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