Part of the hype for the current “Internet Kill Switch” legislation has been evocative images of the Hoover Dam. Clearly, nobody wants the floodgates of the Hoover Dam to open due to an Internet security breach – it’s a great image, because it’s like something out of a Bond movie. So the backers of the bill have been painting that picture and hoping that the visceral dread it evokes will help carry the bill through Congress.
Only one problem – the Hoover Dam, according to the people who actually manage it, isn’t connected to the Internet.
Next thing you know, villains won’t have eyepatches and cats. What a world.