On: US Senate bill allows White House to disconnect private computers from Internet

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Misuse: the shutdown switch or codes aren't properly secured and Foreign Enemy X shuts down your country's internet throwing it into chaos.

Introducing systemic weakness isn't the answer when you're trying to strengthen your network, strengthening your network is the answer.

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Let's hope they don't try to automate this; CALEA was complex and expensive enough.

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And CALEA narrowly impacted on the tiny minority of systems that directly worked with voice communications. The tinfoil hat interpretation of this capability would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.