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Re: infosec and human rights
From: Mark Carey-Smith <m.careysmith () student qut edu au>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:09:39 +1000 (EST)
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:10 -0800 From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca> The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - John Gilmore
That is a good quote but I'm not sure it's relevant any more. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the Arpanet routed around censorship but the increasingly corporatised Internet embraces it? Not sure about that really. My feeling without too much analysis is that the quote refers to routing devices' ability to route around link failures, which is an inherent feature of the IP protocol and dynamic routing protocols. But when those IP packets are dropped cold by packet filtering at an aggregation point they can't avoid then that's game over. Anyone care to comment?
A very thought provoking book, inverting most of the normal ways of looking at things, is: "The Transparent Society", David Brin, 1998, 0-201-32802-X,
Looks interesting, I'll add it to my (long) list of things to read. In that review it also mentioned some writing by Denning on how the US govt doesn't need to break encryption, I'll have to look for that. I haven't read any of Denning's writing since I was doing IDS research. Thanks for your input. Cheers, Mark. Mark Carey-Smith PhD Candidate Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology -------------------------------------- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. The trite subjects of life - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed contemptible. Albert Einstein ------------------ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- infosec and human rights Mark Carey-Smith (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Technocrat (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Technocrat (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Technocrat (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Fergie (Apr 19)
- Re: infosec and human rights Mark Carey-Smith (Apr 25)
- Re: infosec and human rights Mark Carey-Smith (Apr 25)
- Re: infosec and human rights Mark Carey-Smith (Apr 25)
- Re: infosec and human rights Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 25)