There must have been some sad eyes at the National Security Agency during the last few weeks of April. That’s when the backbone of the net switched from government ownership and control to private organizations. The switchover went practically without a hitch, and didn’t even generate any of the “Internet Death” fear postings that are so common whenever someone’s local provider hiccups.
The death of the Internet has been prophesied many times, and no doubt it will die someday. But it will die of its own accord of technical obsolescence or because it no longer provides a useful service, not because a couple of plugs are pulled in central control.
There is no central control. If you get nothing else from this book, get that.
