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US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the information-is-power dept.

4phun found a Wired story that talks about the military options when a dictatorship decides to cut off internet access to its population. "The American military does have a second set of options if it ever wants to force connectivity on a country against its ruler’s wishes. There’s just one wrinkle. 'It could be considered an act of war.'" Hopefully the same options will be available for us when our government gets around to implementing our own kill switch.

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  1. Imagine that... by Skarecrow77 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A network that grew out of a military project may still has backdoors the military can access/control.

    Who'd have thought?

    1. Re:Imagine that... by Skarecrow77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "may still has"

      Ugh. Engrish fail. Need more caffeine.

  2. Re:internet access an inviolable human right? by Entropius · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The trouble is this "natural law" thing.

    I see no mention of "rights", or even of living things, in any of the fundamental natural laws:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

    What do you mean by "natural law"?