The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The plan appears in a recently declassified document, "The Information Operations Roadmap", which was provided under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and revealed in an article by the BBC.
The Pentagon sees the internet in terms of a military adversary that poses a vital threat to its stated mission of global domination. This explains the confrontational language in the document which speaks of "fighting the net"; implying that the internet is the equivalent of "an enemy weapons system."
Perhaps, this explains the recent complications to blogger, typepad, 001 Broken pipe errors and others . . .
As for "fighting it" -- when the loss occurs, it will be done in such a way that it will be hard to prove it has happened, or that it is deliberate. Just as an example: a few years back, an acquaintance of mine attended a technical conference to which a bunch of teenagers had been attended. The teenagers kept eating up all the bandwidth to play games, so the technical wonks set up a scheme whereby the routers would still allow game-related traffic, but at a vastly reduced scale and speed. The teenagers were still getting through to the servers, but in such a way that they could not, in fact, play games. When they asked about it, they were merely told that there was insufficient bandwidth -- technically true, but not the whole truth by any means.
I'm sure there will be a friendly face on it.
I have gotten more Internal Server Error's this month than any previous that I can remember.
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