New Bill Gives Obama Kill Switch To Shut Down The Internet

Second, we've already given President Obama a kill switch that shuts down the entire world.

I don't like where this is heading to.

From the article:

> "The bill has the vehement support of Senator Jay Rockefeller, who last year asked during a congressional hearing, “Would it had been better if we’d have never invented the Internet?” while fearmongering about cyber-terrorists preparing attacks."

They leave out the fact that after that he finishes his sentence and says "and that's a stupid thing to say."

Also if they pass it, make sure to use a Euro or Asian data center for your business. The first time they shut it off in the USA I could see a mass exodus from US based data centers. That is a lot of investment in infrastructure that could go idle very quickly.

Many providers don't actively police their customers for botnet activity or respond to security incidents that don't affect their network infrastructure or back office systems.

This appears to establish a regulatory framework where network security officially becomes more than a law enforcement issue.

I wonder what the practicality of a kill switch really is, it seems next to impossible.