Seven people have been entrusted with the keys to the Internet
http://gizmodo.com/5597964/seven-people-have-been-entrusted-with-the-keys-to-the-internet
These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web “in the event of a catastrophic event.”
The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we’d be left without a way to verify if a URL is pointing to the correct website. That’s when the holders of these smart cards would be called into action:
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 – would have to converge at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect everything once again.
A minimum of five people is needed because each of the smart cards contains only a fraction of the recovery key necessary to set things right again. This means that no single person will hold all the power to resetting our little cyber world. [BBC via PopSci]
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where is burkina faso?
so there it is..7 people with 7 cards hold the key..its that simple..surprised al gore didnt get a key as well seeing as he built it LOL
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burkina faso was the upper Volta in W Afrika
was one of the stop on the amazing race lol
very interesting place if you check it out
Interesting little place, Burkina Faso.
The New Gold Belt
All foreigners and citizens are required to carry photo ID passports, or other forms of identification or risk a fine, and police spot identity checks are commonplace for persons traveling by auto, bush-taxi, or bus.
The average women lives to be 48 yrs and males 47.
There are only roughly 6 doctors for every 100,000 people.
The Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
Such an odd place to hold such an important “key”. Somehow, I think there is more going on in Burkina Faso than the public is aware of – Slavery has returned to Africa along with child prostitution. History repeats sadly…and the little children pay the price.
got some RCC there to..and an interesting coup in 1987
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Power
seek tnks for all the great exploration
your welcome..you guys and your input is vital to
Is there really a key to reboot the internet?
Sort of. Meet one of the seven trusted individuals who can fix the internet in the event of a major catastrophe
To demonstrate how secure their technology is, the launch included the coronation of seven “keyholders”. In the event of a terrorist attack or major disaster, five of those keyholders would meet in a secure location in the US to restart the system.
So would that giant ctrl+alt+delete reboot the whole internet? “Nope,” says Kane – only the small proportion of internet sites using DNSSEC. “The rest of the internet would continue to function as normal.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/27/internet-key
another article
http://www.techeye.net/internet/seven-trusted-security-boffs-have-keys-to-partial-internet-reboot
Looks like a marketing ploy for DNSSEC…personally I think it backfired…no thanks to having to wait for 7 people to get their keys to reboot the internet.Nikki
cheers nikki..a bit of relevance to the article
Funny 401. I’m sure Al will have to be there so that once the cards are used, he can hit the start/restart button. Only he would know how to restart it.
magic button LOL
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nasty female
This looks like something from a film.
I wonder if this somehow will be manipulated into false flag?! The trouble at the moment is the internet is almost totally decentralised infrastructure wise, which is why it’s so hard for a single event to cause havoc on such a large scale.
Having said that, one of the weak areas is the DNS system. DNS is an old protocol (much like POP3/STMP mail, and FTP file handling) and it does have some major design flaws. One of those is the fact that it is somewhat centralised in nature (there are “root” DNS servers that hold information for top level domains and dispatch queries to ISP’s names servers for thngs like subdomains or queries that might no be cached). At least with email and file handling there are alternative protocols and techniques (i.e. IMAP, Instant messaging, scp/rsync) that can be used (while these system might be old like DNS, they are *distributed* in nature from a global perspective unlike DNS).
There have been some issues with BIND, the open source software that is used to implement a lot of DNS handling on the internet, but because the DNS system is flawed by design, the fundumental weaknesses remain. What needs to happen is that we need to migrate away from DNS and come up with an alternative distributed system that is an open standard, implmented as open source software (think transparency!). Obviously a migration path or some level of backward compatiblity would be required while this happens.
There are a few other weak areas imo, firstly most computers use Windows, and thus a backdoor style “bug” could be exploited (not sure how likely this would be pulled off), and secondly Google could pretend to fail too.
With all this talk about Cyber warfare, there has to be an objective and reason. If anything happened we’d need to ensure the distributed/decentalised and open nature of the internet remains to be.
In case you don’t know what DNS is, it takes a host name, like google.com, or any other domain name and translates it into an IP address that holds/hosts that domain. (And then from the IP details, this is used to aid the routing process).
From my perspective, I wonder how any faux flag event would be pulled off, given that it would be possible to implement some sort of versioning in the DNS system that would allow it to be rolled back. While BIND has security holes, being an open source piece of software, any security holes do get fixed quickly and a good number of system will auto update to reflect any patches. I think it could be pretty hard to pull off such a stunt.
hi jay..thanks for your concise comments..i know DNS..my gut feeling is they want regualtion over it..much more than they have today