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Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it?

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:51AM (#785378)

    > teh generals

    If they are like former general kelly, they are so down with the white power agenda that they will lead the way.

    BTW, fox news is the officially designated news channel to be piped into public TVs on military bases. Its been that way for many years now. We should expect that a scary big portion of the military have been indoctrinated with the anti-american white-nationalist propaganda.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:01AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:01AM (#785384) Journal

    Too bad if people think I'm a loon, but there's trouble ahead.

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