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User ID: 1136286 United States 01/30/2011 02:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. Does anyone recall this story? [ link to www.itsecurity.com] Since Jan. 30, 2008, there has been a troubling pattern of underwater anarchy. At first, it was reported that two, then three, then five undersea fiber-optic cables in key bottlenecks global undersea Internet connection — off the coast of Egypt and in the Persian Gulf — had been severed. Initially, reports claimed that the two Egyptian cuts were due to a ship’s dragging anchor during inclement weather — an explanation that has since been discounted. In the meantime, three more cables appear to have been severed, (for a total of five), all with direct connections to the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. And now this: "A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack." [ link to news.techworld.com] Connecting dots & speculation, but interesting nonetheless. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1151054 United States 01/30/2011 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. They turned on/off the computer. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1118750 United Kingdom 01/30/2011 02:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. Or maybe they just instructed the ISPs to turn off BGP announcements. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1248921 United States 01/30/2011 02:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION.
Interesting. I wondered, even asked, how this was possible. The term "Internet Kill Switch" seems to be thrown around quite a bit. But, the logistics don't work for the use of this term. It sounds more like a sanitized version of plan, within the corporate structure, to isolate specific types of servers and to disable the DNS propagation. I don't really understand it. GNN |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 711143 United States 01/30/2011 02:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. Bon Jovi did it! |
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User ID: 1136286 United States 01/30/2011 02:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. Or maybe they just instructed the ISPs to turn off BGP announcements.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1118750Yea, I gather there are more mundane ways of doing it like you suggest, although perhaps a 'node' was inserted in the cut such that the BGP is not as decentralized, if you catch my drift. |
MOHAB User ID: 1250647 United States 01/31/2011 11:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: HOW DID EGYPT SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. Actually The Egyptian Gov. has a "Kill Switch" the internet is accessed through the national phone, so it is quite easy to take the internet down |