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You know, as much as I dislike any attack against civil liberties in general, attacks like this don't bother me as much as, say, unreasonable seizure or firearm
by Femur 18y ago
You know, as much as I dislike any attack against civil liberties in general, attacks like this don't bother me as much as, say, unreasonable seizure or firearm confiscation.
A quote comes to mind: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." John Gilmore (EFF)
In my mind, news like what is described in the post will only spur greater attempts an anonymity, encryption, darknets, etc. They fight and hamper us, we hack around it.
- apage43 18y agoThe thing is, greater anonymity via encryption etc. is not easy to use for the general public. Sure, you can hack around it but not everyone is a hacker. And of course, darknets etc. won't get around the Permission to Shut Down The Internet bit.
- trjordan 18y agoIf it becomes a big enough issue, people will write software and protocols that are as easy to use as the rest of the internet. As an example take https: since it was decided that sending credit cards in cleartext was unacceptable, browsers updated to seamlessly use it. The end user sees nothing except an extra character in their URL, but the technology is entirely different. To extend it to this case, we might see email clients that default to dealing with the messy business of darknets, etc., while providing essentially the same user interface.
- greyboy 18y agoUnless a future step is to require every computer to be registered with the authorities, or go through some central ISP gateway in order to access the New Internet, which gives authorities greater control. Who knows where this kind of stuff can lead.
- Hoff 18y ago"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."