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2016-06-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Skidmark 2016-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Governments with access to mx, cname and A records will be able to shut the internet down at will. Even online credit card/banking transactions could be shut down killing all online commercial activity.

This regime making this decision is the same knuckle draggers who could not build the Obamacare website right, and now they are making decisions regarding the entire cyber space realm.

Posted by Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-06-10 01:39|| 2016-06-10 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign countries would also have the power to ration IP addresses and set pricing and expiration time frames. Watch pricing skyrocket.

Posted by Ho Chi Whese1822 2016-06-10 01:48|| 2016-06-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 So, can somebody working from (say) China provide access that USG can't touch?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-10 05:06|| 2016-06-10 05:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Even online credit card/banking transactions could be shut down killing all online commercial activity.
Wouldn't this kind of shut-down also kill the ability to use a credit card in person, and not just online? Most modern commerce would thus stop immediately and almost totally.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-10 09:04|| 2016-06-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 You didn't build that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-06-10 09:36|| 2016-06-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I have opted out of paperless financial statements from banks, etc. I want to hear from them, regularly, in the old fashioned way. In case the internet vanishes, I have some proof of a relationship on their paper. I still have typewriters, too.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-10 11:24|| 2016-06-10 11:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently they still make these things...

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-10 12:20|| 2016-06-10 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I also remember modems, not cable modems, but the old fashioned kind that you can plug one end into your computer and the other end into a phone jack. You get your computer to dial a phone number, it goes through the modem, over the phone lines and connects through another modem to another computer. I remember very well the days when credit card transactions were authorized that way, without the Internet.

I remember BofA's Home Banking system in which you could use a modem to connect to BofA. There was no Internet Explorer involved. You had to have a special BofA application on your computer to do it. But it worked pretty well. Back in those days I had a second phone line so I could do such things. Didn't have to worry about Chinese hackers.

Maybe Fred could buy a bank of modems. I'd chip in.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-10 12:34|| 2016-06-10 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Going even further back, if you have the patience, I remember when the big retail establishments used private, proprietary telecommunications networks and protocols to authorize credit transactions. Big computer companies like IBM and NCR were very big into it. No Internet, no browsers, no World Wide Web and no hackers.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-10 12:42|| 2016-06-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Acoustical Modems... Can you humm a 300 baud carrier?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-06-10 12:51|| 2016-06-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#11 might be a way to resurrect real brick and mortar store; once financial transactions start going sideways. and cash; bring back cash!

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-06-10 14:48|| 2016-06-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Damn CF that was what I was going to say!!

Now all you need is the TI Silent 700 with the thermopaper and the coupler built in.

Posted by AlanC 2016-06-10 15:12|| 2016-06-10 15:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Just got back from the county tax collector's office, where I walked into their office, paid half a year's assessment with a paper check, got a paper receipt for it. Long story about numerous mishaps over the years for payments I tried using other methods. One thing I learned from one mishap is that there is no legal requirement for a check to be endorsed in order for the bank to issue payment to the bearer. So even if you get one of your canceled checks back, there may be no written evidence of just who cashed it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-10 16:32|| 2016-06-10 16:32|| Front Page Top

#14 But why?
I told them not to do this.

Posted by newc 2016-06-10 17:00|| 2016-06-10 17:00|| Front Page Top

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