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Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 7 17:17:58 2011
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:18:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D506E00.5030904@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
> Subject: Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
> 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.
Irony != coincidence.
One is the government interrupting communications, and the other one
is ... the government interrupting communications.
Oh look: those even came out in the same character positions. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
