Bangalore: How hard is to disconnect an entire nation from internet in this digital age? An analysis by networking firm Renesys says it’s as easy as unplugging a wire, at least for some countries around the globe. The firm also published a list of countries which are most vulnerable to an internet shutdown and fortunately, India is not in the list.

The research was conducted in the wake of the recent internet blackout in Syria, where the state cut off entire population from the internet for two days. Despite internet being famously resilient and built to survive everything, not even a single IP address in the country was either sending or receiving signals. According to Renesys, this can happen to any country, more likely to the countries where internet is more centralized and government has an upper hand in controlling it.

So how does India, lately being an internet controller, escape the list of these nations? The answer is decentralization of internet. India is not like these 61 countries, where just one or two Internet service providers maintain all external connections–a situation that could make possible a quick cutoff from the world with a well-placed government order or physical attack.

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India got placed itself in the “low risk” category of the list, as the country splits internet with more than 15 providers at borders. So it is really difficult for someone to build an “internet kill-switch,” which will shut off all external connections to country. U.S. is placed in the “resistant” category of nations, where it is highly impossible to shut down internet due to the presence of more than 40 Internet providers at its borders. “In the U.S. it almost doesn’t matter how much political will you had or how many facilities you blew up, you couldn’t shut the whole thing down,” says Jim Cowie, Renesys analyst.

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