3 Reasons to Kill the Internet Kill Switch Idea

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:35:05 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Bruce Schneier at AOL News - Why giving Obama an internet kill switch can't work, won't work, and shouldn't be done. The biggest reason to my mind is that it provides a powerful weapon for bad guys to use against us.

The third flawed assumption is that we could build this capability securely. We can't.

Once we engineered a selective shutdown switch into the Internet, and implemented a way to do what Internet engineers have spent decades making sure never happens, we would have created an enormous security vulnerability. We would make the job of any would-be terrorist intent on bringing down the Internet much easier.

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Everything, nowadays, is

Submitted by SilverMoon on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:12:33 GMT

Everything, nowadays, is done in the name of security & people continue to accept it. Obama/democrats no longer represent the people...they represent only their ideology & that is scary.


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