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An Internet kill switch is a countermeasure concept of activating a single shut off mechanism for all Internet traffic.. The concept behind having a kill switch is based on creating a single point of control (i.e. a switch) for a single authority to control or shut down the Internet in order to protect it or its users.
An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services. It can occur due to censorship , cyberattacks , disasters, [ 1 ] police or security services actions [ 2 ] or errors.
A new Senate proposal nicknamed the "internet kill switch" calls for allowing the President to control or even shut down parts of the internet during times of national emergency. Sources at CNET ...
Unlike a normal shut-down switch or shut-down procedure, which shuts down all systems in order and turns off the machine without damage, a kill switch is designed and configured to abort the operation as quickly as possible (even if it damages the equipment) and to be operated simply and quickly (so that even a panicked operator with impaired ...
Bangladesh remained without internet for a fifth day and the government declared a public holiday Monday, as authorities maintained tight control despite apparent calm following a court order that ...
Internet services were cut off and schools were closed for a second straight day in a town near India's financial capital Mumbai on Wednesday, as protests over the alleged sexual abuse of two ...
On 16 August 2013, every Google service went down for five minutes; that is from 22:52 to 22:57 UTC. The outage caused internet traffic to drop forty percent worldwide. [9] Between 23:51 and 23:52 UTC, 50–70% of requests to Google received errors. It has been estimated that the blackout could cost Google around £330,000. [9]
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