Connectivity status for Egypt
Jared Mauch
jared at puck.nether.net
Fri Jan 28 17:50:39 UTC 2011
Jim,
On Jan 28, 2011, at 12:43 PM, <JDuffy at nww.com> wrote:
> And would you comply with it if it indeed became law?
For better or worse, companies will comply with lawful requests. In the event of US Civil Unrest, I think it would be much harder than in other regimes to exert this type of control, and would cause a much broader global impact to economic activity. The same would happen with any pan-european "blackout".
For the economic reasons alone, I rate the chances of "kill-switch" a zero. It makes for great reporting about power, but the practicality is zero.
(this does not preclude the US Government from disconnecting *its* enterprise networks, as has happened with Bureau of Indian Affairs in the past, etc...)
- Jared Mauch
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