US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships

4phun found a Wired story that talks about the military options when a dictatorship decides to cut off internet access to its population. "The American military does have a second set of options if it ever wants to force connectivity on a country against its ruler’s wishes. There’s just one wrinkle. 'It could be considered an act of war.'" Hopefully the same options will be available for us when our government gets around to implementing our own kill switch.

Re:Imagine that...

[ivucica]

Not really backdoors, if you RTFA. They can broadcast network signal, give people satellite phones or other satellite transcievers. There's more stuff that the officer didn't want to discuss, because deployment of those is decided at the level of "commander-in-chief".

Re:We assume that...

[Illicon]

Why stop there? Why not seed blogs, twitter and facebook and initiate a misinformation campaign?

Patience, Grasshopper.

Simpler, low-tech internet

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

People who want internet access write down the URL on a piece of paper, smuggle the piece of paper to a CIA operative, and the response is broadcast in the form of printouts of the requested web page dumped out of a Hercules C130.

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