U.S. Government Proposes "Internet Kill Switch"
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Why do I get the feeling that this is like the I.T. Crowd episode where they show Jen the 'internet' and its just a black box with a blinking light. It's pretty clear that these politicians have no idea what they're talking about. They're either trying to put more control on the internet or they've read Neuromancer WAY too many times.
sounds like rhetoric they use to get the Patriot Act to pass. and we all know how constitutional that was is <.<
Well there is only 1 internet... so it is kind of hard to not have the Pentagon connected to the internet. Especially when it needs to be. But what they can do(and have done) is make it so hard to hack that it's like trying to break into Fort Knox while wearing luminescent orange and having only a small stick to defend yourself. Keep in mind though that it still can be done and I still think that the whole kill switch idea is reasonable as long as they aren't trigger happy about it.TheRightToArmBears said:
Totaly a fair point my freind, but that's not what I was trying to put across, If I may quote from the original articlebrunt32 said:
"To counter those potential cyber-shenanigans, the bill would give a newly-formed National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications the authority to monitor the "security status" of private websites, ISPs and other net-related business within the U.S. as well as critical internet components in other countries."
This would effect everybody in the world imo. As you say this would not leave a lot of infroweb for the rest of us. I don't belive anybody should be comfortable with there government having that kind of power.
Lieberman. Don't ever make the mistake of calling the man a democrat. He's a conservative nut job who claims he will caucus with whichever party is most likely to get him re-elected, and then goes right back to doing crap like this. This looks like a power grab to me; protesters organizing via internet? Shut it down. Even if the killswitch is never used, part of the bill is to make it so ISPs have to answer to the government in ways they almost got sued for when they did it to comply with the patriot act. I can't remember if they ever actually did, but I remember President Bush asking for blanket legal immunity for ISPs who did what he asked them to.
Lieberman's stated goal is to stop cyber-attacks, which is the newest scare-mongering strategy. Apparently, the internet is pretty easy to take down; there's some speculation that when several U.S. government websites went down a few years back, it was an attack by North Korea. This winds up in a big segment on the evening news at least once every couple of months. Basically, Lieberman is continuing the Bush era power grabs through fear mongering, and it really pisses me off that he keeps getting re-elected. Especially since, with his claim of caucusing with the democrats, he gives liberals a bad name as the people in favor of censorship and all sorts of other completely anti-liberal things -- when it's really just him and a couple of other DINOs.
Lieberman's stated goal is to stop cyber-attacks, which is the newest scare-mongering strategy. Apparently, the internet is pretty easy to take down; there's some speculation that when several U.S. government websites went down a few years back, it was an attack by North Korea. This winds up in a big segment on the evening news at least once every couple of months. Basically, Lieberman is continuing the Bush era power grabs through fear mongering, and it really pisses me off that he keeps getting re-elected. Especially since, with his claim of caucusing with the democrats, he gives liberals a bad name as the people in favor of censorship and all sorts of other completely anti-liberal things -- when it's really just him and a couple of other DINOs.
Thank god I live in Canada.
But honestly it's only for times of emergency, then it would tell interneters to gtf off and check the breaking news bulletin for what emergency is going on.
But honestly it's only for times of emergency, then it would tell interneters to gtf off and check the breaking news bulletin for what emergency is going on.
"Oh no! A massive crisis! I think it best we turn off all communication lines so we cannot communicate to the people, and the people cannot communicate! That way, we're completely fucked if something terrible happens. Also, I fold carrots into underpants and wear them as a tribal head ornament in my new country which I shall call The Empire of RETARDIA."
That was your 420th postManji187 said:All the men around the world who are deprived of their access to pornholographicman said:
Just another person who thinks the Internet is all about HTML browsers Kollega. They don't understand ARPANet and what the Internet truly is. Ask most people and they'll say Internet Explorer is the Internet.Kollega said:
The Internet is not just for parsing and rendering HTML (and scripting). It's about making data accessible. The only role of the Internet is strict data transmission. What the entities connected to the Internet does with the data has no bearing on the data itself. The Internet truly is information.
As an aside browsers were built essentially to translate a markup language called HTML. HTML was based on the GML standard created by Goldfarb of IBM back in the early 70s. Standard GML was used in early applications such as Wordperfect and the use of tags would render text in italics and whatnot. The CERN guy referenced above only came up with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and created it in the early 90s. HTML was not publicly used until the HTML 2.0 standard in the mid 90's. The internet was being used well before this to transmit data from machine to machine well before the advent of HTML and HTML broswers. ISPs existed prior to 1990 and ARPA Net (what would become the internet) had 15 connected sites by 1971.
You're a bad, bad man for saying that.Tinneh said:I find it hilarious, albeit a fucking stupid idea. Ah well, Ireland for the win!Gxas said:
And I'm even worse for laughing at it....
This is crazy though... it'd be like shooting yourself in the foot with a shotgun when you needed a funny toenail removed.