On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Dean Willis wrote:
This is bigger than the "perpass" list.
I suggested that the surveillance/broken crypto challenge represents "damage to the Internet". I'm not the only one thinking that way.
an additional call to action can be found here:
http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2013/statement_oti_statement_on_new_leaks_of_nsa_defeating_encryption_technology_3
"In the interim, technologists need to take a hard look at how to
reengineer the Internet to avoid this type of massive undermining of our
privacy rights. Our current trajectory is toward a more fractured, less
safe Internet, and only major, meaningful reforms will restore trust and
prevent even more detrimental outcomes."
I'd like to share the challenge raised by Bruce Schneier in:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying
To quote:
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We need to know how exactly how the NSA and other agencies are subverting routers, switches, the internet backbone, encryption technologies and cloud systems. I already have five stories from people like you, and I've just started collecting. I want 50. There's safety in numbers, and this form of civil disobedience is the moral thing to do.
Two, we can design. We need to figure out how to re-engineer the internet to prevent this kind of wholesale spying. We need new techniques to prevent communications intermediaries from leaking private information.
We can make surveillance expensive again. In particular, we need open protocols, open implementations, open systems – these will be harder for the NSA to subvert.
The Internet Engineering Task Force, the group that defines the standards that make the internet run, has a meeting planned for early November in Vancouver. This group needs dedicate its next meeting to this task. This is an emergency, and demands an emergency response.
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The gauntlet is in our face. What are we going to do about it?
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Dean Willis