2012: The Year The Internet Ends

[psalzmann]

06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.

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[Hurley4540]

I don´t think it will happen in 2012. Maybe later for example in 2050 but IMHO 2012 isn´t very real...

Lol no way.........Technology is more advanced and getting better....they arent just gunna do this to the internet

 

[SoundTheAlarm]

if this happens!
where am i going to d/l my exam papers when im a senioR?!

 

[Ziggery.com]

It'll never happen because of the amount of b2b on the internet right now.

Man o man, this feels like one of those chain letters :hehe:

 

[varchar]

LOL...It reminds me the recent South Park episode "Over Logging".

"One day the citizens of South Park wake up and find the internet is gone. When Randy hears there may still be some internet out in California, he packs up his family and heads west."

Google it... it's funny.

 

[CoolCode]

all people want is a subscription to a Internet package which includes access to a Proxy site :lol:

 

[bludex]

There's some intelligence suggesting that in case of an (hopefully not occuring) attack on Iran which probably would be nuclear the internet would effectively be shut off so nobody would know what's going on. Cable-cuts in February could have served as a test of feasability.

Also an EMP (by HAARP/Barium-Aluminium Chemtrails?) could shut down all conventional communication and computation.

About the February incidents:
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2008/02/5th-internet-cable-cut-17-million.html

DUBAI - An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected due to the recent cable cuts, an expert said on February 4, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research website.

Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables. However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected.

Two du experts briefed the media on the current methods being undertaken by the telecom provider to re-route the Internet traffic to provide normalcy to the users.

Quoting TeleGeography and describing the effect the cuts had on the Internet world, Mahesh Jaishanker, executive director, Business Development and Marketing, du, said, "The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, 6 million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia."

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown, explained Jaishanker.


http://www.itsecurity.com/features/cable-cut-conspiracy-020708/

Internet Cable-Cut Conspiracy

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Rumors and speculation about why five undersea cables to the Middle East have been severed — and what it means for IT security.

Jim Higdon on February 7, 2008

Since Jan. 30, 2008, there has been a troubling pattern of underwater anarchy. At first, it was reported that two, then three, then five undersea fiber-optic cables in key bottlenecks global undersea Internet connection — off the coast of Egypt and in the Persian Gulf — had been severed. Initially, reports claimed that the two Egyptian cuts were due to a ship’s dragging anchor during inclement weather — an explanation that has since been discounted. In the meantime, three more cables appear to have been severed, (for a total of five), all with direct connections to the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.

With no official account that would sufficiently explain why so many cable disruptions could occur in such a short period of time, rumors and speculation have swirled across blogs, offering explanations from the tongue-in-cheek to the telltale signs of imminent warfare.
What Happened, and When?

On Jan. 30 — five miles north of Alexandria, Egypt and deep in the Mediterranean Sea — two cables 400 yards apart were cut One of the cables is owned by Indian company FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of Reliance Communications Ltd.; the other, SEA-ME-WE 4, is owned by a consortium of 16 telecoms and connects 16 cities between Singapore and Marseille, France.

With the cuts, Egypt lost 70 percent of its connectivity, and India lost more than 50 percent of its outbound traffic, “messing up the country’s outsourcing industry,” according to The Economist. Initially, a spokesperson for FLAG Telecom told the The Register that the cut had been caused by a ship's anchor, but the Egypti's telecommunications industry told The Associated Press that there were no ships in the area at the time.

When a third cut occurred on another FLAG Telecom line on Feb. 1 — on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula, in the waters near Dubai — many online observers detected a pattern that some considered malicious. Some bloggers and commenters suggested that the cable cuts represented a precursor to an American invasion of Iran, fueled by incorrect and unfounded rumors that the cuts had left Iran in the dark (proof to the contrary can be found at Renesys and Google's Iranian search engine). Other theories (some of which are absurd) include scuba-diving jihadis attempting to disrupt American NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance; an attempt to delay the opening of the Iranian oil markets; seals (the mammals, not the elite commandos) trained by the U.S. Navy; and the monster from "Cloverfield."
Cover-Up?

Skeptics, meanwhile, have pointed to more mundane culprits such as undersea earthquakes or seafloor mudslides. The anchor explanation from the Alexandria, Egypt cuts seemed like a cover story to some observers, especially after Egyptian officials dismissed them. So many who saw a devious plan at work ignored the fact that the third cut had, in fact, been caused by a shipping incident, according to FLAG Telecom officials, after they discovered a 5-to-6-ton anchor near the scene of the disruption.

On Feb. 4, the Interational Herald Tribune reported that four cables had been cut. The next day, the Khaleej Times reported from Dubai that five cables run by FLAG Telecom and SEA-ME-WE 4 had been severed, affecting 1.7 million Internet users in the United Arab Emirates, in addition to at “least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.” The fifth cable outage was due to power issues, but it was swept up into the perceived conspiracy web out of coincidence and convenience.

While the causes of three of the five cuts remain unknown, repair crews are en route. Officials from FLAG Telecom and SEA-ME-WE 4 estimate that the cables will be fully functional within three days, according to Reuters.

The comment storm across the blogosphere following these events has proved largely unreliable but has increased awareness of several important facts: The USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, can spy on the Internet underwater; the Pentagon considers the Internet “an enemy weapons system”; and, President George W. Bush signed a secret order to expand the NSA’s network-monitoring programs just four days before the first two fiber-optic cables were mysteriously disrupted.

 

[psalzmann]

There is more to "tits" than meets the eye

ISP's block access to newsgroups - What is next??

Now we're seeing the wraith of what's about to come.
I believe this is only the beginning.

Keyword: ISPs.

Time Warner, Verizon, and Sprint... All blocking access to Usenet nationwide??

This is absolutely horrible. Might be the first steps taken in the US to block more things... Just because they don't like what some people do doesn't mean they should block access to it.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html

Very very scary times. We might as well all start living in china and have their super firewalls blocking what we can and can't see.

No one is going to stand up to these new rules, and we will just lose more and more of our freedoms just like we saw with the US after the patriot act that no one read before it was passed.

Are we still laughing?

 

[Idees]

:lol: That episode was hilarious!

"Were heading out Californi way"

LOL...It reminds me the recent South Park episode "Over Logging".

 

[bludex]

I don't think it's too late as we can still make people aware about it all.

The internet is our 'grassroots' means to organize against the big bad guys. Use it or loose it...

 

[ecigs.net]

Smells like another Y2K issue.

..or the Hale Bob Comet.

 

[DADomains]

... The internet is our 'grassroots' means to organize against the big bad guys. ...

This right there is the part that scares me. There's the main motivation to shut it all down I would think. Since the big bad guys don't like free speech, and have the power and money to change things, the internet could very well be a target.

 

[maxeaus]

i see this thread is 4 months old now, and no Time article has ever come out yet! To think these kids fresh out of school on the video are privy to such "sensitive" information is laughable. The only person who would dare try this is Rupert Murdoch. Even he would fail miserably. :bah:

 

[briman1970]

Mods why have you forsaken us by not closing this thread.

THIS. IS. A. HOAX! :yell:

 

[ecigs.net]

This right there is the part that scares me. There's the main motivation to shut it all down I would think. Since the big bad guys don't like free speech, and have the power and money to change things, the internet could very well be a target.

Why would they shut down the Internet anyhow? They (the bad guys) can track what everybody is doing more thoroughly and perfectly now without even leaving comfort of the office. The Internet is the perfect bad guy tool.

 

[Shenron]

The best part of that video is...ermmm....welll, you know... some girls' shirt :D

 

[darknight867]

This would mean the world economy crashing. Especially in such such notice "it leaked" which means the ISPS werent going to let us know for another 3 years? Comon guys seriously...

This is BS. Don't just think about all the commercial uses of internet but also the educational uses. We would literally become a dumber society as a result of this.

This might happen 50 years from now maybe but we would need a 50 year notice so that it doesn't effect the economy nor the society as much. This will not happen from a leaked source 4 years from now. Let us be realistic.

 

[Web Master]

Interesting commercial idea, but that's not possible. In 2012, all Internet service providers and all websites start to use IP6, which means there will be much more spaces and more authorities obtained by regional and independent ISP and website owners to develop freely. Now there are already many free websites, and there will be much more free websites from 2012. :lol:

 

[melchior]

I'm afraid it's too late.This won't happen.. ever..

 

[DylanButler]

... I think its already HAPPENING!

 

[hiyip]

I have read somewhere that within 10 years the internet will be so 'full' that it will come to a standstill. Too much information to process.