Marketplace Tech Report for February 03, 2011
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Will the president get more power to turn off the Internet?
by Molly Wood
Feb 3, 2011
That's the United States president we're talking about here. Not the guy in Egypt. There's a big push about to happen on Capitol Hill to give the chief executive power to take over private computer networks in the event of a large scale cyber attack on the nation's infrastructure. But events in Egypt are forcing the effort's defenders to do some explaining.