You may have heard the rumor that swirled briefly last month about an Internet 'kill switch' that could power down the Web in the case of a critical cyber attack.
Those rumors were largely overblown, but it turns out there are now seven individuals out there holding keys to the Internet. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic cyber attack, these members of a 'chain of trust' will be responsible for rebooting the Web.
A minimum of five of the seven keyholders - one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic - would have to converge at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect eveything once again.
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