Berners-Lee: 'Growing tide of surveillance' is destroying the internet Tim Berners-Lee has warned that snooping spooks are destroying the free spirit of the internet. He said a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship" was drowning the democratic nature of the web. Sir Tim was speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation's annual web index report, which analyses the web's " …
why the military were so eager to get involved from the outset ?
Actually the military invented it before civilians knew what a computer network was. It was designed to maintain communications during and after a nuclear war, and probably would.
"Military intelligence" is reputed to be oxymoronic, and certainly isn't what most of the public need to be concerned about. It's the non-military state internal intelligence agencies that concern us, especially when the rules applied to us are not equally applied to our masters / political superiors / rulers / pond-slime / whatever you call them.
Hi Tim, look, i've tried using that 'Backdoor' you put in the Internet
so that no one can see what your up to, i've tried using the following;
UP, DOWN, LEFT,RIGHT,X, Y, A, B, LEFT SHOULDER BUTTON, RIGHT
SHOULDER BUTTON and SELECT, but all i've been getting is the extra
speed settings on Street Fighter 2 Turbo... where am i going wrong?
Berners-Lee didn't invent the Internet. He came along well after it was in use. His contributions to the WWW are well known,and appreciated, but that's where it ends.
There should be no limit, surveillance, or censorship of information on the Internet, full stop. Those are the tools of despots and dictators. That human right should be ingrained by the United Nations.
Spies be spying. That's what they do. Even if it was made illegal it would still continue and the people responsible would be shielded by 'top secret' 'operational' and the like. The spies want -at the end of the day although there are lots of other factors- intel on potential foreign aggressors and the politicians will never say no to a handy source of blackmail material; so you can't count on it ever lessening, let alone stopping.
What we need is ubiquitous encryption on everything; with encryption that the various letter-agencies haven't had their sticky paws all over. Probably won't stop them; but we can collectively make the fuckers earn their paycheques, at least.
You underestimate the stupidity of John Q. Public. Not only is the water almost to boiling already but they've been adding stuff to the water, affecting your thinking. At this point, the frog may be addled enough to not be able to swim out even IF cognizant of the facts. IOW, the point of lucidity is already past the point of no return.
"World Wide Web Foundation's annual web index report, which analyses the web's "contribution to development and human rights globally".
Sweden comes top, followed by Norway, while the UK is third place and the US in fourth."
Looking at that list looks more like list of contribution to spying and eroding privacy globally.
(Actually not sure if Norway should be there or not, but the rest certainly gobble as much data passing the borders as possible).
Encouraged by the article, I tried to go to https://theregister.co.uk
Of course, it doesn't work. Captain Cisco on the other side of the building (and the NSA) needn't know from whence comes my feed of trivial, geeky information. Please? I'd prefer, fwiw, that you use a self-signed certificate since I'm not all that keen on RSA and company, and it worries clueless folk.
Btw, nice job on the 10-minute Make It Better option!
The Internet and modern technology have made feasible a social and commercial system so powerful that we now think it is necessary, but it also enhances our shortcomings as social and political beings, only one of which is the exposure of things we once thought private. Revise history? Easily; the USSR could do that!
We are now able to revise the present -- and edit the words sent from one person to another.
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