Does the Internet belong to one country?

There is a cear heirarchy in IT. Helpdesk is at the bottom, it's the job you get when you start. Next are programmers, they don't get paid as much as most others. Next is probably sys admins, then data base admins and at the top of the technical payscale are network admins, assuming they are good. CCIE's get the sort of salaries you associate with CEO's. This of course doesn't count sales people and managers and other non technical staff.

I was lucky. I stepped out of engineering for a few years and went straight to 3rd level support. Even then IT is a pretty yukky place to work. I've done many things over the years and eng is amongst the most rewarding, probably no. 1. For me anyway...

If anyone wants a good read (if somewhat outdated) then Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll is excellent. It has spies from both sides, hippy astronomers, the internet, computer viruses, recipes for biscuits and is absolutely true.
Cheers,
Jim

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What a load of rubbish! Do you not understand why a country would want to have the option of shutting down a potential threat? It has nothing to do with arrogance... Time and time again it has been shown the effectiveness of cyber attacks and the effect they have on a country. Any country's government that doesn't have a contingency plan in place are at best obtuse but probably simply stupid and or cheap..

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The threat to a country like the USA is small as far as the establishment goes. The threat to the populace is far greater and of less consequence on the Government of the day other than voting power.

The key services have far more sophisticated security and tracking methods than most folk realize or imagine. I would be very ,very surprised if a successful attack was made on the USA. But this is not the place to discuss any details of any US security arrangements in regards to internet or anything else.

I do understand that they would have back up plan. Nor did I suggest other wise,my comments were directed at the individual who in the USA who is endeavouring to bring it about and his high handed attitude.That '' we'll shut it down goddammit, its our right.'' etc etc.That was the way it struck me at the time.

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Tight allies! Try to say that to the person on the street. I have never seen such hatred for the US that is so unfounded than I have in Australia. To the outsider you'd think the hatred was taught in school. Visions of little Australians rocking back and forth chanting I hate America, I hate America...

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We sure like to visit the place you say we hate, :? Hmm I guess your travel experiences in this matter to be different from mine. From my wandering about over seas for several years I bumped into some very serious anti US sentiment. I am not sure what part of Oz you live in as I have not seen it anything like it here at all.
Other than a certain ethnic group that seems to hate all, other than themselves.
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I gather the bill has now been passed.
cheers,
Jim

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Originally Posted by jimbur

I gather the bill has now been passed.
cheers,
Jim

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Apparently this power of cutting off communications by the president has existed since 1941.
The current bill adds a few restrictions to how the president can activate this power.

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Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Apparently this power of cutting off communications by the president has existed since 1941.
The current bill adds a few restrictions to how the president can activate this power.

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Thanks Geoff. That article is the background information we needed.
Cheers,
Jim

The second Internet is used for educational purposes. It is much faster than this one and is being developed as a replacement for the current one. As to which country own it, I don't know. But, I do know there is an international organization which oversees it. That meets in Switzerland. OTOH, who knows what is going on we don't know about???

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Originally Posted by Rifleman1776

The second Internet is used for educational purposes. It is much faster than this one and is being developed as a replacement for the current one. As to which country own it, I don't know. But, I do know there is an international organization which oversees it. That meets in Switzerland. OTOH, who knows what is going on we don't know about???

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I think the "known knowns" are complicated enough:D
Cheers,
Jim