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Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave CROCKER)
Sat Feb 5 21:13:14 2011
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:11:45 -0800
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
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On 2/5/2011 6:43 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote:
>> Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for
>> the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would
>> survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic
>> nuclear strikes)
>
> Urban legend, although widely believed. Someone probably made the observation.
Maybe not quite an UL...
<http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html>
On the average, The Rand Corp is extremely careful about what it publishes, yet
here it is, repeating the claim.
Back in the '70s, I always heard "survive hostile battlefield conditions" and
never heard anyone talk about comms survival of a nuclear event, but I wasn't in
any interesting conversations, such as in front of funding agencies...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
