[136789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 4 21:51:03 2011
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:49:07 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110205022526.GC28351@sizone.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/4/2011 8:25 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
> However, shutting the internet down (you know, when they press the
> magic button that makes my telebit trailblazer no longer able to do
> UUCP) would instantly create a market for services more robust/localized/
> culturally-customized than those that suddenly go missing on that day.
> (wonder if anyone has contingency plans in the wings waiting for such
> an event).
Eh, We'd all rub our eyes, see the light creeping under the door, and
actually go and see what's going on outside. :)
Except the HAM operators. They don't need the Internet to stay inside.
Jack
