• Brit holds the 'key to the Internet'
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[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100728/ttc-brit-holds-the-key-to-the-internet-f0c422d.html]Source[/url] [quote]An entrepreneur from Bath has been selected to safeguard the future of the Internet in the event of a terrorist attack or other catastrophic event. Paul Kane, chief executive of Internet management company CommunityDNS, is one of seven people who were given a ‘key’ to restart the Web if it is knocked offline. Mr Kane is the key holder for Western Europe while the other six individuals will share responsibility for the rest of the world. In the event of a security breach, six of the seven individuals will be required to travel to a secure location in the United States where they can collectively recover the master signing key. The keyholders would be able to reboot secure systems that underpin some of the Internet to ensure Web users are directed only to genuine websites. Mr Kane said: “I’m honoured and excited to be recognised for past achievements and current contributions to global Internet security. “We are very pleased to be part of stimulating innovation in the Bath area and see the University of Bath becoming a global centre of excellence for enabling Internet technologies.” Mr Kane’s company is made up of a team of specialists that created a security system, known as DNSSEC, that companies can use to make their websites more secure. Kane has dismissed suggestions that a single key could be created to reboot the entire Web. “Such a key would trigger the Balkanisation of the Internet,” Kane told The Guardian.[/quote] [img]http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/ynews/20100728/15/3889640252-brit-holds-key-internet.jpg[/img]
This is like the plot to some action movie.
Doesn't exposing his identity like this kinda, like, make him a target? I mean, seriously. If there was a cyber attack big enough to knock the entire fucking internet offline, wouldn't you think they'd have more then a few people sitting behind computers, like hitmen and assassins, at their disposal?
It's not just a Brit, there's 6 other people. And there's already a thread on this.
[QUOTE=mrcole92;23687501]Doesn't this kinda, like, make him a target? I mean, seriously. If there was a cyber attack big enough to knock the fucking internet offline, wouldn't you think they'd have more then a few people sitting behind computers like assassins at their disposal?[/QUOTE] That's kinda what I was thinking :raise:
HURF SO DUZ AN AMERICAN And there's already a thread about this.
Nuclear football, key to the Internet... what's next?
Pretty sure you can't just 'RESTART THE INTERNET'
We're screwed.
Restart the internet? I think these people have a huge misconception of what is the internet..
I bet this has another hidden, dumb agenda behind it. :sigh: That's what politics is these days, hidden agendas...
This sounds like a bad scifi movie
Of course a British person has the key they are the master race after all he probably has the only real key and the others are decoys
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;23687464][b]the key to the internet[/b][/QUOTE] Also, there isn't only one key. There are seven. Six of them are needed to restart.
The internet of the entire world?
Clearly, the IT crowd has a box that is the internet
[QUOTE=mrcole92;23687727]Also, there isn't only one key. There are seven. Six of them are needed to restart.[/QUOTE] The thread title never implied that there was [i]only[/i] one key. People who read the article would understand without trying to point out a non-existent mistake in the title.
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;23687910]The thread title never implied that there was [i]only[/i] one key. People who read the article would understand without trying to point out a non-existent mistake in the title.[/QUOTE] I have already read the article and understand it, but saying 'the' just sounds like it is the only key. Just pointing it out, that's all.
One key to rule them all, One key to find them. One key to restart, one key to end.
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;23687910]The thread title never implied that there was [I]only[/I] one key. People who read the article would understand without trying to point out a non-existent mistake in the title.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=23687910#post23687910"] [/URL]"Brit holds the 'key to the Internet'" Sounds like it's saying one key to me. "The" is used in cases of singularity. The ring, the key, the car. "A" and "An" indicate one of a larger group. A ring, a key, a car. "Brit holds [B]A [/B]'key to the internet'". Would have indicated multiple keys. [editline]02:35PM[/editline] [QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23688173]One key to rule them all, One key to find them. One key to restart, one key to end.[/QUOTE] One key that needs four partners to restart them all. [quote]A minimum of five of the seven keyholders – one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic[/quote]
Is someone going to nuke the internet?
[QUOTE=AlphaGunman;23687565]Pretty sure you can't just 'RESTART THE INTERNET'[/QUOTE] The keys are for DNS databases.
[QUOTE=Jimpy;23689423]Is someone going to nuke the internet?[/QUOTE] Its in the event of a cyber attack that could severely damage critical systems. Basically, ICANN would shut down key servers to roughly sever all connections. Then, when its determined safe to do so, they meet and restart the systems.
it's like an action movie, except the star is a complete imbecile.
this won't happen.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;23689928]this won't happen.[/QUOTE] Already did :tinfoil:
[quote]An entrepreneur from Bath has been selected to safeguard the future of the Internet in the event of a terrorist attack[/quote] A terrorist attack could disable the entire web?
Massive viral attack. Think Uplink (or Hacker Elite of you bought the stolen version).
Woah this guy is like 35 odd miles from where I live.
[QUOTE=Shibbey;23690287]A terrorist attack could disable the entire web?[/QUOTE] Sort of. Its also for like what I said, protecting critical systems. With more functions being transferred to the internet, it becomes a serious concern. With so many banks going digital, a serious cyber attack could devastate them, or an entire corporation shutdown because attackers managed to gain access to their internal systems and destroy them.
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