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The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet
drbutts writes "The Toronto Star has an interesting story on how they are securing DNS: 'It's housed in two high-security facilities separated by the North American landmass. The one authenticated map of the Internet. Were it to be lost — either through a catastrophic physical or cyber attack — it could be recreated by seven individuals spread around the globe. One of them is Ottawa's Norm Ritchie. Ritchie was recently chosen to hold one of seven smartcards that can rebuild the root key that underpins this system' called DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions). In essence, these seven can rebuild the architecture that allows users to know for certain where they are and where they are going when navigating the Web."
Yes, that is what I was thinking too.
I was thinking of a nigger joke myself. Fuck that, how about a Jew joke? or two?
Why do Jews have such huge noses? Because air is free.
How was copper wiring invented? By two Jews fighting over a penny.
Why didn't they choose a Mexican as a TCR (Trusted Community Representative).
That exclusion is highly discriminative...
I've been seeing this idiotic story floating around now for a couple of days.
What kind of retarded system is this? They don't have tape back-ups? Why would it have to be a "Everybody turn your super-secret key on five, four, three. . ."
Fuck this.
I'm REALLY getting tired of having the fear button punched in my brain. Fuck off. The internet is vulnerable. The planet is vulnerable. Everything is vulnerable. Oooooh. I'm really scared now. I'll let you scan my retinas at airports and x-ray my kidneys and I won't complain when you blow 1.4 billion dollars on police for a fake burning cop-car G20 bullshit summit. Just fuck off already.
Key cards to re-boot the internet? FUCK OFF!!! That's the dumbest TV movie plot device I've ever heard. It's as fucking retarded as that Lone-Gunmen plot where they flew planes into the world trade center. You know? The one with Bruce Willis. Do they think we're all trailer-park retards who can't tell reality from bad scripting?
So please, for the love of all that is good, FUCK OFFFFFFFF!
-FL
12-21-2012
What the HELL kind of date format is that? The only one I'm familiar with that uses hyphens is ISO 8601 (yyyy-MM-dd). To be sure, year 12 never had 21 months, and the nonexistent 21st month did not have 2012 or more days.
Odometers don't put the decimal wheel in the middle. Thermometers don't put the fractions of temperatures in the middle of the thermometer (only to be read between 69 & 70 f or 19 & 20 C). Even actual physical calendars display the days as a sub-element of the month and the month as a sub-element of the year. Who would rationally put the day in between the month and the year? I mean really.
Even Arabic, which reads right to left, uses the numerals in a left to right positional notation. It's 10 years since Y2K and we've apparently learned nothing.