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There is special "blame" here put on the US government, but I think this is irrelevant. In pretty much any country today, the foreign intelligence services are
by keyme 13y ago
There is special "blame" here put on the US government, but I think this is irrelevant. In pretty much any country today, the foreign intelligence services are allowed to spy on everyone else except their own citizens. In the minds of most citizens, this practice might seem reasonable, and maybe necessary.
This, of course, means that everyone, everywhere could be monitored by (almost) everyone "legally".
The basic architecture of the Internet is naive in that that it does not treat countries as separate, "hostile" entities, while in fact they most certainly are.
- jlgreco 13y agoIf you read the article you will see that it calls on engineers to find technical solutions that will treat all countries as "hostile" entities. As Bruce points out, the "this is a political problem and requires a political solution" line of reasoning is only partially true. We need technical solutions as well.