The Magnificent Seven
Actually, these seven will not save your village from bandits. Nor will they ride triumphant into the sunset on horseback. These seven are more mundane, but they are nonetheless shrouded in a degree of mystery, albeit rather technical. These are the seven holders of the seven keys that control the Internet’s core directory — the Domain Name System. Without it the Internet’s billions of users would not be able to browse or search or shop or email or text. From the Guardian: In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a windowless canteen for a ceremony to begin. Outside, the sun is shining on an unseasonably warm February day; inside, the only light…