This kind article comes out every year or two and it's always incredibly misleading. They always try to make it sound spooky and dystopic. What would it even mean for 14 people to "control" the internet in any newsworthy way?
"The group conducts the ritual, then each person files out of the room one by one, and then they all head to a restaurant and party."<p>Well, I now know where I would attack if I had any interest in a takeover of DNS.
I got this article a day before from a friend and he brought up the question which I have no answer for:
> what if all 14 are assassinated?
> 14 is not that many, especially when they meet occasionally<p>Then I was just reading the <a href="https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper</a> which has a "contract amendments" section saying:
"... if over 50% of oracles notice that one of them fell, they can transfer the contract funds to another multisig address, with the dead oracle replaced by another one, allowing for safe and long-term contract management."<p>which sounds like they don't have plan for 100% death rate either.<p>I guess in case of such an horrible event, we would finally setup a different process which wouldn't require the collocation of several people...