On 02/04/2011 10:53 AM, Julian Cain wrote: >> Interesting! Any idea how they did this? For example, did they just >> turn off DNS such that nothing resolved even though the core domestic >> routes were intact? Or did they actually turn off every broadband >> connection in the country? > > The Egypt government has a kill switch that orders ALL ISP's to stop routing > ALL data. The USA has this as well written up in an executive order for a > SHTF scenario(economic collapse).
If we the US already has this, why is there a bill going through congress to create this kill switch? > Here is one example: > http://m.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-internet-goes-dark-in-egypt/613 I don't see anything in that article addressing domestic internet; where does it say the domestic networks didn't work? -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
