blog： Can we find the all-powerful 14th Server?
There are 13 root servers that control a major element the internet. But is there a secret 14th server that controls them all?
Our production research into nations, the web, censorship and control have uncovered a theory posited by internet governance scholar Professor Ang Peng Hwa that
‘…there is a “hidden server” that reportedly controls the other 13 servers from a secret location in the U.S. He suggests U.S. manipulations of the master server caused the Iraqi .iq domain name to disappear during the 2003 U.S. invasion, thus crashing the entire Iraqi internet.’
Source: The Battle for the Internet’s Soul
Watch the video of Ang Peng Hwa’s speech here (be warned this is on an older platform and may take a long time to load), wherein, after some considerable exposition, he declares that essentially there is one root server controlled by the US Government from which all other servers take their lead, that could be used to disconnect an entire nation from the web.
But, here’s our thing - we can’t find any further mention of this suggested 14th Server. It’s hard to even call it a conspiracy theory with so little information beyond that supplied by Ang Peng Hwa.
