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Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Feb 7 17:12:23 2011

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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Josh Smith <juicewvu@gmail.com>
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On 07/02/2011 21:53, Josh Smith wrote:
> I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my
> neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge.  Getting anything
> much beyond that up and running would be a stretch.

I can't help noticing some irony in seeing one nanog thread about working 
around a supposed government internet kill switch by using wireless 
transmission kit, and another about the US Navy reputedly trashing 
connectivity in an entire country by, uh, jamming wireless transmission links.

Nick


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