Internet Shut Down During Emergencies
Friday, August 28, 2009 by Grayghost2348 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Bill could give Obama control of Internet during emergencies
Andrew Lyle 2 hours ago · 37 comments & 1585 views
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A new U.S. senate bill has been redrafted to give President Obama the power of control to shut down the Internet in case of emergency situations. The 55-page draft that was obtained by CNET appears to permit the president to seize temporary control over private-sector networks in a cybersecurity emergency.
If the bill is passed, it would allow control to temporary disable Internet traffic in private-sectors. "A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president's power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001."
Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which contains large Internet and telecommunication companies such as Verizon, Verisign, Nortel and Carnegie Mellon University said "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."
The bill is still unclear what power of control President Obama might receive until it is properly addressed after the Senate's summer recess.
The bill is to protect against cyber threats and attacks on critical infrastructures such as the power grid in case of an attack from a broadband connection. Such control over the Internet may never be executed but with hackers getting more creative, national security becomes top priority in emergencies.
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Reply #42 Monday, August 31, 2009 10:31 PM
What an ahole. Internet without pron? 
Reply #43 Monday, August 31, 2009 10:44 PM
Without pron there wouldn't be an internet...
Reply #44 Monday, August 31, 2009 11:05 PM
Precisely... we'd then be forced to obtain under the counter pron and keep the magazines under our mattresses. For some that's gonna be a problem... pecariously balancing a mattress on a stack of magazines 'THAT' high.
And without internet pron there'd be a lot of people falling out of bed and breaking bones. Like they say, it's not how far you fall, it's the landing that hurts most...and in my case, all I got is a concrete floor the break my fall.
Me thinks I'll be keeping my mags under the spare mattress, then... got brittle bones and it'd be one helluva way to fall.
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Reply #41 Monday, August 31, 2009 8:10 PM
I dunno! It has a nob on the end like a dick. It it much longer than a dick. It's probably much harder than a dick.
It looks like a femur bone... but then, it could be a pre-historic dick.
Nope, I'm confused... though the guy bears a striking resemblance to our PM... the previous one even more.
Our idiot PM doesn't want to shut down the internet as such... but he wants to eliminate porn by installing filters at the ISP.
Yeah right! The first model cost taxpayers millions in research, etc, and an 11 year old wiz cracked it in under 10 mins.
That, I think, qualifies our PM to be an effwit dickhead.