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Old 08-29-2010, 04:38 PM   #1
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Cybersecurity, and Why Alt DNS Roots are Needed

Check this article from Raw Story:
A federal cybersecurity bill that critics say creates a presidential "kill switch" for the Internet could be added on to a defense spending bill and passed without much debate, technology news sources report.

Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE), one of the sponsors of the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, told GovInfoSecurity.com that the Senate is considering attaching the bill as a rider to a defense authorization bill likely to pass through Congress before the mid-term elections....

....The bill (PDF) states that Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet-related businesses "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security.
This is hard to enforce, although big corporations (Verizon, Google, AOL) will likely eagerly comply without resistance. ICANN, though, is the big one -- that's where they can shut down the whole web via control of the domain system. This is one of the reasons why I favor a system of alternate DNS roots.
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