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Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:27:32 -0800
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen <hayden () nextlevelinternet com> wrote:
Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic nuclear strikes) Does it not bode ill for "national security" if any party could take out a massive communication system by destroying/pressuring a few choke points?
As has been noted previously, it's all about your frame of reference. If the US is removed from the Internet, it does not mean the Internet stops working; from the perspective of the rest of the world, the Internet is still there. likewise, when Egypt shut down the internet (from their perspective), it was essentially a complete shutdown, from their viewpoint; nothing on the internet was reachable. This did not mean the Internet shut down; for most of the rest of the world, they barely noticed Egypt was gone. The Internet itself will continue to function, no matter what silliness the US political system attempts to engage in; from the perspective of those in the US, it may appear that "the Internet" is unable to survive such an attack; but from the perspective of the rest of the world, it really will be localized damage in the US, and not at all a case of the Internet being shut down. Matt
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- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch, (continued)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Paul Ferguson (Feb 03)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Barry Greene (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Mark Newton (Feb 03)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Paul Ferguson (Feb 03)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Martin Millnert (Feb 03)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Paul Ferguson (Feb 03)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch JC Dill (Feb 03)
- RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Hayden Katzenellenbogen (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch bmanning (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jay Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Matthew Petach (Feb 04)
- OT: (was Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch) Karl Auer (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Matthew Moyle-Croft (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Ken Chase (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jay Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Ken Chase (Feb 04)
- RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch George Bonser (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jack Bates (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Randy Bush (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Fred Baker (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Dave CROCKER (Feb 05)