tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post182275766585410961..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Internet Kill SwitchFSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-5563692903361736952010-08-02T21:06:37.812-04:002010-08-02T21:06:37.812-04:00Dealing with a malicious hacker is easy. You writ...Dealing with a malicious hacker is easy. You write antivirus software or disconnect the offending computers.<br /><br />Dealing with malicious State thugs is harder. If they come to kidnap you, then you are SOL.FSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-4918288820408507752010-08-02T20:58:24.576-04:002010-08-02T20:58:24.576-04:00Someone could build a protocol to bypass such a la...Someone could build a protocol to bypass such a law. Let's call it the whac-a-mole protocol. In the event of a known government shutdown, or hacker attack, a condition requiring sophisticated logic or AI to detect, deploy a new instance of the information taxonomy dynamically. If new instance is shutdown, deploy a second instance. Loop shutdown / deployment step indefinitely. Theoretically this sounds ok, but when applied to the real world Internet, resources would be exhausted in a short period of time - there are only a certain number of backbones that could be shutdown, if that is how the attack occurs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-55696620108187930142010-07-08T19:44:19.275-04:002010-07-08T19:44:19.275-04:00from: http://cbs4.com/technology/internet.freedom....from: http://cbs4.com/technology/internet.freedom.regulation.2.1774665.html<br /><br />The legislation would force companies such as broadband providers, search engines, or software firms that the government selects to "immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security.<br /><br />Any company on a list created by Homeland Security that also "relies on" the Internet, the telephone system, or any other component of the U.S. "information infrastructure" would be subject to command by a new National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC) that would be created inside Homeland Security. <br /><br />The NCCC also would be granted the power to monitor the "security status" of private sector Web sites, broadband providers, and other Internet components. Lieberman's legislation requires the NCCC to provide "situational awareness of the security status" of the portions of the Internet that are inside the United States -- and also those portions in other countries that, if disrupted, could cause significant harm. <br /><br />Selected private companies would be required to participate in "information sharing" with the Feds. They must "certify in writing to the director" of the NCCC whether they have "developed and implemented" federally approved security measures, which could be anything from encryption to physical security mechanisms, or programming techniques that have been "approved by the director." The NCCC director can "issue an order" in cases of noncompliance.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-1980552378462157922010-07-08T19:04:05.501-04:002010-07-08T19:04:05.501-04:00State thugs could seize your domain name and order...State thugs could seize your domain name and order your ISP to shut down your site.<br /><br />It would be tricky. Via the "Streisand Effect", any content that gets censors would be like a State endorsement.FSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-44664595131858817122010-07-08T18:39:20.001-04:002010-07-08T18:39:20.001-04:00You cannot shut down the Internet. The Internet pr...You cannot shut down the Internet. The Internet protocol was designed to survive multiple catastophic nuclear hits across the country. We now have wirelessRobin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648517992918303543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-72362445840014372602010-07-08T18:36:32.044-04:002010-07-08T18:36:32.044-04:00If Scott's description is right, then it reall...If Scott's description is right, then it really is a censorship tool.<br /><br />State parasites would love to censor/cripple the Internet. I don't see that happening, but you never know.<br /><br />If I write "agoristbay", then I could be deemed a "terrorist" and State thugs could takedown my site. I wouldn't even get a trial or chance to appeal.FSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-32218187684924167242010-07-08T13:19:26.058-04:002010-07-08T13:19:26.058-04:00FSK,
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The Ne...FSK,<br /> I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The NetWeb was designed to be decentralized and robust. Some speculate it could even survive a nuclear war. I doubt featherbrain dirtbags like Obama and his minions will be able to kill it even if they tried. And since they’re a bunch of know-nothing parasites, they would have to rely on intelligent, productive people to implement their dirty scheme, and I doubt they would cooperate, or if they did (no doubt coercively) they would sabotage it somehow.<br /><br />Good post.dionysusalhttp://www.angelfire.com/theforce/dionysus/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-74573114032201665042010-07-08T02:48:20.369-04:002010-07-08T02:48:20.369-04:00If what they were actually asking for was an inter...If what they were actually asking for was an internet kill switch, your analysis would be correct. However, that is the media spin. It's not a kill switch. It's the ability of a subdivision of DHS to make any orders they like to entities on the internet, and those responsible for the entities, from ISPs to web sites, must comply immediately without question or right of appeal.<br /><br />So they can say "blogger, take down FSK's guide and delete all references" and "google, remove all references to any page with links to FSK's guide that ever existed" and they must do so, and no one can go to any judge or court to appeal this, nor can they ask what law was broken because there wasn't one, it was a directive from an agency that can not be questioned and is accountable to no one but the president.Scottnoreply@blogger.com