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SpikyAube ago

How is there an internet kill switch? Where's the source for that? Wouldn't that be impossible? They'd have to get every ISP to agree, surely?

street1510 ago

It's ICANN. There are seven keys needed to reset the internet and 14 in total around the world. Many of the keyholders are unknown. The US branch just went private because of Obama.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web

From my limited understanding it's a reset for the global dns (ip addresses) in case of emergency. It would essentially bring the internet back to square one. They would probably be able to recover a lot of sites in time but a crazy amount of data would be forgotten and lost.