Posts by beenaround

Pirate Bay towed to oldpiratebay.org

Re: In support of "illegal" downloads.

Based on JJKing's post I assume he resides in AUS where the ISPs still charge on data volume so there is a point in what he says although "simple" is probably not the right word to justify his reasoning.

In Australia, protesting against Brendan Eich will be a CRIME

Re: About Proposition 8

I do see your point.

On the other hand, do you know for a fact that every time you donate money to an organization for a cause they will use them in a manner that you totally approve?

I m not defending anyone here but I feel that everyone deserves the benefit of doubt.

USA opposes 'Schengen cloud' Eurocentric routing plan

I think you are missinterpreting the EU intentions

IMHO all of you guys talking about the intention of EU building a network that will be "un-snoopable" are losing the plot. This is not the issue here. There will always be attempts by external powers to eavesdrop on such an EU network that carries interesting data. And encryption that was mentioned as a solution is not a panacea. Compromised operators, compromised servers, compromised end user devices or even quantum decryption that may come in the future can tackle this to a degree.

The fundamental difference of not having such a network is that if there are companies, servers or cables which fall under US jurisdiction involved then the data can be acquired (NOT intercepted) by the NSA en mass, legally and easily. I doubt NSA would be able to grab such a huge volume of data if that data weren't crossing US jurisdiction. Also no NSA agent AFAIK has been punished for participating in the scheme. So it is easy legal and safe.

I believe US in a similar manner banned HUAWEI from strategic projects based on allegations that their equipment may have back doors. Regardless if this was true or not it was within the rights of US to protect themselves and avoid any potential network vulnerabilities. That doesn't mean that the Chinese may not try to infiltrate the US networks in any other manner. They will always do.

In a similar manner Europe has the right to try and protect itself at least by making it harder for externals to snoop at their data. Whether this is practically possible at the moment is not the issue. The issue is to build a network that US has no easy legal wayto intercept it. Will that stop them trying to? Of course not. Is it possible to built such a foundation taking into consideration the current Geo-Political-Financial situation of Europe. Of course not.

Regardless I believe that Europe has the right to try and set it up. Step by step after some time they can get there.