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Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:18:17 -0500 (EST)

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From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick () foobar org>

Subject: Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
On 07/02/2011 21:53, Josh Smith wrote:
I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my
neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge. Getting anything
much beyond that up and running would be a stretch.

I can't help noticing some irony in seeing one nanog thread about
working around a supposed government internet kill switch by using wireless
transmission kit, and another about the US Navy reputedly trashing
connectivity in an entire country by, uh, jamming wireless
transmission links.

Irony != coincidence.

One is the government interrupting communications, and the other one 
is ... the government interrupting communications.

Oh look: those even came out in the same character positions.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra


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