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Response: Open Web Alliance Lobbies to Intercept Your Traffic
- peterwaller 12y ago"Open Web Alliance". Sounds like a good thing, doesn't it? Open is great! Oh, wait, they want it to be open so that they can read all of your traffic. Wat.
- jcbrand 12y agoThere's a long history of abusing words or phrases with positive connotations in order to achieve something else (often the exact opposite). It's basically Newspeak from Orwell's 1984. One of the more recent ones is the "Internet Freedom Act" being proposed by Republicans and which aims to end Net Neutrality. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet-freedom-act-would-wipe-out-net-neutrality/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet...
- whoisthemachine 12y agoRepublicans have (at least in the last few decades) been the best at this practice. PATRIOT act is probably the most notorious example.
- 21echoes 12y agoAnd the recent "Internet Freedom Act" http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet-freedom-act-would-wipe-out-net-neutrality/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet... with this choice quote from its author: "Once the federal government establishes a foothold into managing how Internet service providers run their networks they will essentially be deciding which content goes first, second, third, or not at all"
- dragonwriter 12y ago> PATRIOT act is probably the most notorious example. It is the USA PATRIOT act, and not only is that name an example of what you describe, but its actually an acronym over a longer bit of the same thing: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"
- CyberDildonics 12y agoAlways on asymmetric encrypted IP could solve all these interception issues.
- igl 12y agoI wish there was a website illustrating the political compass of companies. Showing their affiliate network, money flows, endorsements/statements, tax-haven parent companies and ivory collections of elephant hunting CEOs. Call me reactionary.
- pjc50 12y agoPeople occasionally build things like https://opencorporates.com/ https://opencorporates.com/ , but generally you're talking about maintaining a lot of information whose maintainers need to be paid somehow.
- igl 12y agoYeah i can see that it is a lot of work. I could be reduced to influential companies that are listed in the stockmarket or are somehow else classified as influential. Food-watch for apps and devices... I am just winging it now. Time to do some googling.
- xrstf 12y ago> "The HTTP2 protocol is more efficient when running over a encrypted connection" Can someone explain this to me? How does the encryption make the procotol more efficient?
- dragonwriter 12y agoI think this is just an inaccurate statement. I think it is true that the performance gains of HTTP/2.0 relative to HTTP/1.1 are greater when both are running over encrypted connections rather than both running over unencrypted connections, but I don't think that HTTP/2.0 over encrypted connections is more efficient (using any normal understanding of that term) than HTTP/2.0 over an unencrypted connection.
- xrstf 12y agoThat was also my impression. Thanks.
- rbc 12y agoI recently switched a forum that I run completely to HTTPS when my users started complaining. Broken proxies at their ISP were breaking the forum for them. Who knows what other kinds of meddling is going on...