Tag: KILLSWITCH

Around 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, Internet activity in Libya suddenly disappeared. Like any despot facing a popular uprising, Gaddafi has kept his finger on his country's Internet kill switch. Connections have since been restored, but unlike in Egypt (where ISPs simply shut down), Libya appears to have a sophisticated system that sends data into an Internet "black hole." Observers on the outside ...

On the very day that the Egyptian government shut down an overwhelming majority of the country's Internet servers, Republican Senator Susan Collins began floating a piece of legislation which, if passed, would grant the President the power to do essentially the same thing in the U.S. The so-called 'kill switch' bill was approved by the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/18/new-bill-grants-fed-power-to-shut-down-the-web/'; Connecticut Senator, and chairman of the Homeland Security committee, Joseph Lieberman introduced legislation last week that would grant broad new emergency powers over the Internet to the federal government. The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA) would require broadband ...

Share Since 2005, there have been at least 358.4 million personal records lost to security breaches, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. This includes everything from home addresses to credit card numbers and Social Security information. But, as frightening as the prospect of your sensitive data being compromised is, simply removing all traces of yourself from the Web is not a ...