In The Event Of A Cyber Attack, Who Holds The Keys To The Internet?

The Keys to the Internet Each smart card contains a portions of the DNSSEC root key, which would be necessary to reboot the Internet as we know it if connections were severed to stem a cyber attack.

An Order Of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys To The Internet -- Popular Science

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 turned out to be 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.

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My Comment: Rebooting the internet .... now that will be an interesting day.