Obama Internet kill switch plan approved by US Senate [Committee]

techworld ^ | 11:02 GMT, 25 June 10 | Grant Gross

[freebird5850]

Maybe not. The headline stated “parts” of the internet. Most likely this site, Rush.....anything Republican since we ARE the threat to the one.

[GOPJ]

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[monday]

“A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.”

So a cyberattack’s aim is to disrupt the Internet, and Obama’s solution is to shut down the Internet? Can't get any more disruptive than that. Seems Obama plans on doing our enemy’s job for them. Maybe that's the point. Who's side is Obama and congress on? Doesn't seem to be on our side.

[ErnBatavia]

...not to mention that Zero’s infamous Blackberry would go dark.

[backwoods-engineer]

>>If the backbone providers are shut down during one of Rahm Immanuel's fake crises, and the Web goes down, I fear there will be a shooting war ensuing.

>Are the best targeting options from the bottom up (ambushing storm troopers, then leftist politicians, etc.) or from the top down (leadership first)?

I don't know, and don't have the desire or expertise to plan such a thing. I am just going from history. How many times has there been civil war when the government has taken away an economic element that the people had grown used to? Many, many times. Our own Revolutionary War, for one (taxation). The Civil War, for another (slavery). And history will repeat itself again.

[LucyT]

Catching up Ping. Check out # 45, too.

[Myrddin]

To shut down the internet would be tantamount to shutting down the country.

It would sure put a crimp in my "work at home" arrangements with my company. It would also destroy the ability of company employees in the field to comply with the requirement to record time card activity on a daily basis via the web based system. I would still be able to function with FedEx shipping of CD/DVD images from my office, but it would drive up costs. I suspect the first thing the company would do is ramp up the dialup network again. A PPP link on a V.92 modem is sufficient to get the job done and steps around the internet completely.

[bgill]

Back to writing letters, Pony Express, to get communication out!

Nope, that won't work either. They censored wartime mail. Only thing left is smoke signals.

[bitt]

okay...most financial companies do all servicing and new business via the net...so they would shut all financial transactions down entirely.

All business via financial products would stop.

The rush to go paperless and go to the cloud will have defeated us all.

[Cvengr]

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