An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet

By Vigilant | July 27th, 2010 | Category: Latest News | 10 comments

You may have heard the rumor that swirled briefly last month about an Internet “kill switch” that could power down the Web in the case of a critical cyber attack. Those rumors turned out to be largely overblown, but it turns out there are now seven individuals out there holding keys to the Internet. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic cyber attack, these members of a “chain of trust” will be responsible for rebooting the Web.

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10 Comments to “An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet”



  1. Scott says:
    July 27, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    The sinister ‘chain of trust’ (henseforth known as the SCOT) are already in control. They’re on to you, and have broken your link!

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  2. Dragon fang says:
    July 29, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Wow…
    And I thought Obama was the main key to the whole thing.

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  3. LiNcK says:
    July 29, 2010 at 9:09 pm

    Uhmm… I dont really see anything wrong with that…
    (IDK the guy, Maybe hes evil or something?)

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    • Amore says:
      August 1, 2010 at 9:44 pm

      There’s a lot scary about it, the internet probably contains more information than anything else in the known universe, is now vital to so many modern systems and routines in the world and is the only thing that can relay information across the world at the speed that it does. Anyone having the ability to just turn it off, possibly delete everything on it is an incredibly powerful person.

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  4. Bryman says:
    July 30, 2010 at 4:26 am

    Kind of related but not really…

    Its scary looking at my PC screen now…I’m in work and don’t really use this PC to look at personal stuff but there are adverts advertising to me things I’m interested in….

    In one corner there is a hotel advert for a small hotel I’m staying in tomorrow in Spain…How does this PC know???

    Below that is an advert for online masters degrees in Liverpool….I enquired about this from a different PC months ago.

    And there is an advert for a book I bought weeks ago!!!

    I feel like I’m constantly being tracked.

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    • cccc says:
      July 30, 2010 at 7:22 pm

      yeah I know, if I search for “adidas clothing” or something, later that day after searching when I’m on random websites, now they are all adidas ads! and it changes for different stuff I visit, and some website I go to everyday so i know it changes with what I search.

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    • jimmy says:
      August 14, 2010 at 12:04 am

      maybe, google saves cookies about your searchs and then show ads from google ads in an attempt to make you click them and get money

      that would make sense if you only saw them in the computer you searched them, but the fact you see them at your job is creepy

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    • Mary says:
      August 15, 2010 at 3:00 am

      You are. =)

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  5. FaHmEdA says:
    July 30, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    Eep.

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