Re:Poll: Should the US President have an Internet kill-switch?
by abhimishra on Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:18PM
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I don't even think it needs to be a switch. The actual bill that was brought up in the Senate doesn't explicitly say 'kill switch' anywhere. In reality a call from someone in the government to a few people who work at large ISPs/backbones would be enough, since they would just comply. We saw this happen recently with Wikileaks, after all....
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Re:Poll: Should the US President have an Internet kill-switch?
by kbyers on Friday January 28, 2011 @01:07AM
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It is not so easy--large networks will have a lot of redundancy built-in. Consequently, even shutting down a single large BGP autonomous system is not a simple problem and would have a lot of unintended consequences.
Wikileaks is not a good analogy. Wikileaks is more analogous to black-holing one small AS.