A closer look
Highly secure master keys to physically reboot the global internet are held by a completely mundane group of seven international individuals. These trusted cryptographic key holders meet four times a year in heavily fortified, windowless rooms to perform a ceremony that verifies the root keys of the Domain Name System, basically ensuring the internet knows how to route traffic correctly. If a catastrophic cyber attack ever compromised the entire network infrastructure, these designated nerds would have to combine their smart cards to authenticate a total system reset. It sounds exactly like the plot of a terrible nineties hacker movie, but it is deeply comforting to know the world's most critical communication infrastructure relies on a fellowship of IT guys performing a magical digital ritual
