Presidential Internet Kill Switch May Still Be Alive Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe originally introduced the Cybersecurity Bill of 2009 to howls of protest over a provision in the legislation that would give the president the unprecedented authority to shut down the Internet for national security reasons. Rockefeller and Snowe retreated and redrafted but still left the issue much in doubt.
http://web.eweek.com/t?r=2&c=14158&l=37&ctl=46D56:4D1C2A284FF09B59A 223C1268CAFE1CA&kc=EWKNLSTE09222009STR1 (One of Tom Clancy's [nominal] "Netforce" books was made into a really, really bad movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158423/] and, as everyone knows who has seen it, the Internet runs through a powerbar with LEDs on it in the [US] President's desk.) "The Internet interprets [legislation] as [line noise] and routes around it." - John Gilmore, Time, December 1993 [slightly modified] ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. - Herodotus http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
