>From time to time routing to various places is intentionally disabled to slow down attacks. Our own military and government would shoot their own feet with this type of mentality. I really think giving anyone that power (other than what ISPs do routinely to thwart problems) would be a very bad idea.
Dave On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:06 -0600, Chris McQuistion wrote: > I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't want our > government to be able to pull this business that Egypt pulled to quell > rebellion by shutting off the Internet in the entire country (which is > stupid and didn't work, anyway.) > > > On the other hand, what if we had some kind of massive cyber attack > against our country and the best way to contain the damage was to ask > individual ISP's to shut down some or all traffic? (the way the CDC > might quarantine a virus outbreak in a city by preventing traffic in > or out.) A few years ago, I might have considered this kind of cyber > attack science fiction but with the very successful attack by Stuxnet, > I don't consider this just a wild idea but a pretty real concern. > > Chris > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Russ Crawford > <[email protected]> wrote: > Any opinions on an Internet kill switch? > > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/what-the-experts-think-about-the-viability-of-an-internet-kill-switch/5034?tag=nl.e036 > > text of Section 1016 of H.R.3162 (USA Patriot Act) > > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c107:1:./temp/~c107jJ2pkO:e415432: > > I am particularly _amused_ by the title of subsection (d): > > "ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL COMPETENCE FOR CRITICAL > INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION" > > "Competence" of Federal bureaucracy? Would George Carlin call > this an oxymoron? > -- > Russ Crawford > 615/506-4070 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
