Cyber Commander Says It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet (washingtonexaminer.com)

An anonymous reader links to a report on Washington Examiner: It simply would not be possible to shut down areas of the Internet that terrorists use to conduct malicious activity, the head of U.S. Cyber Command told a Senate panel on Tuesday. "In a very simplistic way, people ask why can't we shut down that part of the Internet. ... Why are we not able to infiltrate that more?" Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., asked Cyber Command leader Adm. Mike Rogers during a hearing on the agency's budget for fiscal 2017. Manchin maintained it was a common question from his constituents. "I've had people ask me, can't you just stop it from that area of the world where all the problems are coming, be it Syria or in parts of Iraq or Iran," he said. "I'm not just trying to find an answer, because that question is asked like shut her down, like you do your telephone, but it doesn't work that way," Manchin concluded.

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Crappy headline - forgot "areas of"

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet
>> not be possible to shut down areas of the Internet that terrorists use

Big difference. Unfortunately, I see these kind of inquiries leading to a "why don't we have a great big 'murican firewall" train of thought in a year or two.

Re:YEs, it does work that way

[mrbester]

If you cut the link cables to Europe are you cutting off Europe from you or are you really cutting yourself off from Europe?