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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday January 11 2019, @11:45PM (1 child)
In a serious national emergency, serious enough that the government is planning on curtailing the Internet to shut down me and my clients (none of which are important enough for the government to legitimately care about), then getting the Internet-related aspects of my life up and running again aren't even on my top 10 list. Yes, including phone communications: Those who I'd want to talk to already know how to find me for in-person communications, and I would assume that all phone conversations were being listened in on and thus not say anything important over them.
In the unlikely event that guys with guns are ordering me to shut down any Internet-related stuff under my control, I'm going to shut it down. Again, none of it is worth dying over.
This concern is sounding an awful lot like: "The boat is sinking, whatever will happen to the hi-def TV in the galley?"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:44AM
Somebody's not a sysadmin [xkcd.com]. :-)