Reply #17: Yeah, that too is really strange.

[napoleon_in_rags]

I mean, how far down does that go? Does it apply to routers in a company? So they can control what departments of a company talk to each other? Its either that they're talking about about putting restraints on network topology physically, saying company 1 cannot run an ethernet cord to company 2 without letting the government control it, or their talking about controlling EVERY little router. And that's where we get into what you are talking about, somebody ELSE giving the command. If the government controlled routers are diverse enough, cheap enough, and widespread enough to be in every company, everybody and their dog is going to be able to open them up and examine them to find out exactly how they are shut down.