earthpigg
July 11th, 2010, 12:15 AM
http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-arming-the-us-for-cyberwar/19547156
snip (but consider yourself encouraged to read the whole thing):
With this legislation, if the government knew an attack that could have catastrophic consequences for Americans or our economy was imminent or under way, the president could implement emergency measures protecting a select group of the most important networks and assets needed to maintain our way of life, while still respecting the civil liberties of our citizens.
without discussing the politics and thus getting this thread closed, let's conjecture about what this could mean at a technical level.
my conjecture:
disconnecting the banking, financial, and defense sectors from the wider internet upon presidential order.
keep a redundant backup online and internet-facing so folks can continue banking and trading and whatnot - with the caveat that none of these transactions may count in the long run.
if the catastrophe (real or false alarm) ends and those internet-facing systems are still reliable, then declare all said transactions as valid.
if it ends with the internet-facing banking and financial servers being compromised, then all banking and stock transactions over the last X days are declared void, and everyones stock/bank accounts are restored from the Final Backup Day prior to the compromise.
snip (but consider yourself encouraged to read the whole thing):
With this legislation, if the government knew an attack that could have catastrophic consequences for Americans or our economy was imminent or under way, the president could implement emergency measures protecting a select group of the most important networks and assets needed to maintain our way of life, while still respecting the civil liberties of our citizens.
without discussing the politics and thus getting this thread closed, let's conjecture about what this could mean at a technical level.
my conjecture:
disconnecting the banking, financial, and defense sectors from the wider internet upon presidential order.
keep a redundant backup online and internet-facing so folks can continue banking and trading and whatnot - with the caveat that none of these transactions may count in the long run.
if the catastrophe (real or false alarm) ends and those internet-facing systems are still reliable, then declare all said transactions as valid.
if it ends with the internet-facing banking and financial servers being compromised, then all banking and stock transactions over the last X days are declared void, and everyones stock/bank accounts are restored from the Final Backup Day prior to the compromise.