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7 people have keys to reboot Internet

reply to Rebirth
Or they can just do it the other way. Make a few hardware and software modifications to the facility and turn it on themselves. C'mon, you think a couple of plastic key cards is going to make a difference when you have control of the facility?

reply to Rebirth
Opera didn't like that cert either. Plus, it's from GoDaddy! UGH!

reply to Rebirth
"A second key ceremony will take place in a second secure facility in Los Angeles in early July. By having two complete and independent facilities available, ICANN is able to ensure that key ceremonies can continue to occur in the event of an unexpected disaster in one location. Scheduled key ceremonies will take place four times annually, with two occurring in each location. Full deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone, using the key first generated in Culpeper, is scheduled to take place on July 15, 2010. Extensive documentation and related information about the project can be found at "

I get it, if you are a TCR and chosen each time you can get a trip four times a year. Follow the business trips, sorry vacations.

reply to Rebirth
It's not "keys to the internet", it's only DNS. Important yes, but not essential to communications.

The five-of-seven would have to be assembled only if a disaster struck and took out the key store. And if three of seven died, the damage would be only replacement of the root key - unfortunate and it would impose a lot of cost on DNS operators all over the world, but not unfixable.

More details here: »www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2···key.html

Doesn't this make for an excellent plot of the next spy thriller movie? Who is Killing the Great Key Holders of the Internet? Maybe it should be shortened to The Key Killers.
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Lord of the Keys - Seven keys to BIND them all.

thxs to John Leyden

That's even better, and Leslie Nielsen could star. It would be better as a comedy than as a pure thriller.
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reply to THZNDUP
Dragonball KEYS.

You've got to search the earth to collect each of the 7 keys to the internet. Once gathered together, you perform the correct chant, and an amazing dragon appears to grant you your wish. You use it to reboot the internet.



- FM

That could be an on-line game, couldn't it? There seems to be no end to the possibilities. If there is money to be made from the concept, someone will do it.
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reply to Rebirth
I can imagine Alex Jones had a field day with this ("OMG the interwebz is in the hands of 7 mysterious people -- must be the illuminati working with the aliens.") Unfortunately for Mr. Jones the truth is nowhere nearly as exciting or dramatic as that. Bruce Schneier's blog covers this pretty well and some of the comments give some nice insight as to how this all really works.
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reply to Steve
I don't think the level of education has anything to do with knowing that Upper Valta changed its name in 1984 unless you were in school at that time, or shortly before or after, and didn't learn your geography. It might have more to do with not watching the boob tube instead of obsessing about never missing the 6 o'clock news.
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reply to Rebirth
Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet.
Now he's lost the keys to it..........................

reply to rcdailey
If you've heard of the game "Garry's Mod," you could easily make such a game mode. Make people join, try and find the keys to the Internet before it destroys the planet for not being rebooted. Though right now in that game, if you want the key to crashing the server (well, two keys) at least, what you need is a server slot, and the Stacker STool.

reply to Rebirth
Interesting how nobody thinks the cert problem on someones DNS etc www, who has just been selected and trusted with a key to reboot the Internet, matters ? If we can't trust his DNS etc www to be on the ball with sorting out it's cert professionally and on time, what chance him losing the key, forgetting his passport, or missing his plane, etc etc ?

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"This might be more of a reflection on your education than it is on the hilarity of the idea."

And that VERY nasty and uncalled for comment is a True reflection on yours. Quite frankly i'm surprised at you. I hope you don't treat your customers/family, and friends if you have any, like that ? Of course ALL the people you know all know exactly where Burkina Faso is, and that it used to be called Upper Volta.

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You "might" know my temporary IP address, but i know where you live !

Reboot the Internet, LMAO somebodies been watching to much South Park

»gizmodo.com/381088/how-to-fix-th···uth-park
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