" The End of the Internet? -- (The Nation -- February 1, 2006) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency "
---- Dr. Brin, the conspiracy is much broader than this. Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Etc. are all on board. It's called TCPA / Palladium AKA next-generation-secure-computing-base (NGSCB) AKA Bitlocker. (It's also why apple suddenly switched to intel). With a so called 'trusted-computing-platform-module' (TCPM) being built into the CPU of all new computers, remote attestation can be enforced by the ISP's universally. The right to access or read the internet is being killed. See: <<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html>> This means nothing unless TCPA / Palladium is stopped somehow: <<http://civic.moveon.org/mediaaction/alerts/Stop_AOL_email_scheme.html> > and <<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html>> <<http://www.stallman.org/harry-potter.html>>: Making Canada respect human rights will be hard, but a good first step is to identify the officials and legislators who do not support them. The article quotes a lawyer as saying, "There is no human right to read." Any official, judge, or legislator who is not outraged by this position does not deserve to be in office. RFID chipped Books: <<http://www.stallman.org/sinister-publisher.html>> ----- "How noble libertarianism, in its majestic equality, that both rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the privately owned streets (without paying), sleeping under the privately owned bridges (without paying), and coercing bread from its rightful owners!" --Anatole France _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
