Cellphones and the Internet
I do not possess a mobile phone and I am not looking to acquire one either. I never liked them and only the thought of having one in my pocket gives me the heebie jeebies. The first time I handled a cellphone was in 1995 in Italy. It was when I went to Italy with my thirteen year old son to Italy this after a fourteen years hiatus from my country. We were travelling by train to Rovigo, in the north east of Italy. In the train, a passenger offered me the use of his mobile phone to call my cousin in Adria, which is just a short distance about twenty kilometers from Rovigo.
I found the experience of calling my relative with a mobile phone a bit strange. Even today, I cannot get over this feeling of oddity in seeing so many people on the street, or as they drive their cars, or on public transport, in café bars, or restaurant, while eating their meals, using cellphones continually. I have seen children, no more than four or five years old with mobile phones. Where will all this end?
Today, there is document that says that the USA government will switch off all the cellphones and the internet, any time from now.
Here it is for you to read.
The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
I find it hard to imagine why an internet kill switch would ever be a good idea, short of some science fiction scenario."
pdate: The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the court just granted the government more time to decide whether to release the kill switch plan. It now has until January 13.This month, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Homeland Security must make its plan to shut off the internet and cellphone communications available to the American public. You, of course, may now be thinking: What plan?! Though President Barack Obama swiftly disapproved of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak turning off the internet in his country (to quell widespread civil disobedience) in 2011, the US government has the authority to do the same sort of thing, under a plan that was devised during the George W. Bush administration. Many details of the government's controversial "kill switch" authority have been classified, such as the conditions under which it can be implemented and how the switch can be used. But thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), DHS has to reveal those details by December 12—or mount an appeal. (The smart betting is on an appeal, since DHS has fought to release this information so far.) Yet here's what we do know about the government's "kill switch" plan:
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