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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
From Bruce Schneier's article at http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...net-nsa-spying
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You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump |
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The US government built the Internet, so not sure how he means a fundamental social contract was undermined.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...Bill_of_Rights Originally the internet was built as a military research tool and it can be well argued that there is no right to privacy on a military network. At some point in the 1990s though, the government handed the internet over to the people and businesses for domestic use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...rk_to_commerce And at that point the "Bill of Rights" became important as laws governing the relationship between the people and the US government. |
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