From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryjaq-0001nd-7l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:40:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C167EE0993; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8075FE07BE for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm1 with SMTP id m1so2643252yen.40 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.174.6 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.174.6; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.174.6 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdalek1967@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rdalek1967@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.174.6]) by 10.236.174.6 with SMTP id w6mr18309142yhl.106.1329568770010 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:39:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=I4Ej72jwMnDqJeq+qfW+jCULcd+Ns/2DVMe8Fr9ONd8=; b=eZJulbNUvTWDuhwBMgUETpom7OZNM9RlWZ+LwpTq/AgOg95UlILNKIHkcFNkDIv+md RGGTyrVB4nIAya/JatjmcFAPgz3BhNEjIn4yy3UZNKbKbH7PLiRV6N4B7t1vExhj7zf7 4KM2Ozhu5XK98iCZq2Jg9dkDSAgHME701ziOc= Received: by 10.236.174.6 with SMTP id w6mr13999852yhl.106.1329568769972; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r68sm30355259yhm.18.2012.02.18.04.39.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:39:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3F9BFF.9070104@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:27 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120204 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess? References: <4F3F7CBA.9020600@gmail.com> <20120218124409.43286f16@khamul.example.com> <4F3F92C0.3060506@gmail.com> <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1971113.3a2zZ3o5ps@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f9bfc48e-fb11-43b4-bcc5-8a7dcbf85741 X-Archives-Hash: a7d664de4128f4a215d8a1ca4e72649d Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: >> >> I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the >> computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? >> If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is >> still working. Sort of anyway. >> >> Does make one wonder tho. They have been talking about having a >> internet "off switch" but I'm not sure it would be that easy. > > basically, yes. Take down the core routers and backbones and everything falls > apart. > But how long would it take to actually do this? Another thing, the Government, especially the military, uses the internet too. What would they do? Without? What about other countries? Just because the US Government wants the net shut down does not mean other countries would follow. I'm just curious as to how this could be done and just how any person can shut down the internet globally much less one country. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"