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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-would-YOU-do? dept.

Got a contingency plan for men with guns showing up at your cubicle and ordering you to re-route traffic to please the government?

Section 606 of the 1934 Communications Act provides for government takeover of wired and radio communication in the event of war or "other national emergency".

I'm not saying anything will happen in the next few days. Trump's state of emergency might be just talk. It might be limited to its stated purpose. It's rare for actual disasters to happen.

You've got a disaster recovery plan (DRP), though. If it's not in the next few days, a "national emergency" problem might show up sometime down the road. Does your DRP cover it?

It's hard to imagine a technical solution. This may require the company lawyer to prepare a [Layer 8] contingency plan in advance.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Friday January 11 2019, @11:02PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday January 11 2019, @11:02PM (#785279)

    > Got a contingency plan for men with guns showing up at your cubicle and ordering you to re-route traffic to please the government?

    While i couldn't re-route any traffic if I wanted to, here is the plan for anyone living in a Western civilized country:
    "Sir, I will be happy to comply with your requests as soon as they come from my boss. I suspect he will check with Legal first."

    Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint. This is not a Hollywood version of an African / South-American putsch. There is a process, it's probably rehearsed, and the people concerned know what to do.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @11:16PM (#785286)

    "Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint."

    .

    No, those who want to control the internet will focus on the backbone fiber, which will allow quick and absolutely certain interruption of access.

    If you really imagined that a government agent might have come to an office to "shut the internet down", you should turn in your geek card, hang your head in shame, and never post on Soylent again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:51AM (#785353)

    Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint.

    That's so true. They'll show up at your desk with a wrench and demand the password to your godaddy account.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:50AM (#785398)

    Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint.

    They go through the banking system instead. [twitter.com]

    And somebody sure as shit ordered the shutdown of the news sites that reported on Gamergate. Bulletproof hosts that allow warez, spam, and kiddee porn wouldn't tolerate a gamer news site reporting on a business corruption scandal. Some of the first things anons found when they started looking into it were links to DARPA, IARPA, and the education system. Zoe was represented by Robert Mueller's law firm. Governments had to have been involved in that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:31PM (#785697)

      "And somebody sure as shit ordered the shutdown of the news sites that reported on Gamergate."

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!