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Internet Kill Switch

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Cybersecurity: Lots of Answers, Now Let's Ask the Right Questions

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Cybersecurity, Congress, Internet Kill Switch, White House, Obama Internet Kill Switch, Administration, Kill Switch, Technology News

Government and private institutions from the Pentagon to Wall Street regularly face significant threats from unseen and unknown assailants in cyberspace -- from casual hackers to nation-state actors.

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Internet Freedom Threatened By New Restrictions

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Open Internet, Internet Kill Switch, Internet Freedom, Web Censorship, Internet Censorship, Freedom House, Web Freedom, Technology News

Freedom on the worldwide Internet is in danger, according to a new report by Freedom House. In a survey of 37 countries, only 8 qualified as having...

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The Resilience of Egypt

Jim Cowie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Egypt Internet Kill Switch, Egypt Protests, Great Firewall, Noor Group, Internet Kill Switch, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, Tunisia Facebook, Egypt Facebook, Egypt Internet, Tunisia Revolution, Technology News

The Egyptian "kill switch" was simultaneously a technical success and a mystifying strategic blunder. Could other governments implement such a kill switch?

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Fight America's Internet 'Kill Switch'

David Segal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe Lieberman, Internet Kill Switch, Censorship, Homeland Security, Internet Censorship, Politics News

The so-called Internet 'Kill Switch' would allow the president to declare a state of cyber-emergency under which he could order critical infrastructure to do essentially whatever he wants.

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The "Kill" Bill: Obama, the Internet and the Beginning of a Congressional Odyssey

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Collins, Checks and Balances, Cyber Attack, Internet, Fema, Congress, Constitution, Internet Kill Switch, Cybersecurity, Joe Lieberman, Obama, Tom Carper, Pcnaa, Technology News

While PNCAA (the so-called "Internet Kill Switch" bill) seems to advocate a cross-sectoral approach to tackling cybersecurity threats, it doesn't use private sector best practices when establishing what is supposed to be a response to potential "cyber warfare."

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