> Message du 13/03/14 15:33 > De : "John Young" > A : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Comsec as Public Utility Beyond Illusory Privacy >
> Snowden may have raised the prospect of comsec as a public utility > like power, water, gas, sewage, air quality, environmental protection > and telecommunications. Privacy protection has been shown to be > illusory at best, deceptive at worst, due to the uncontrollable > technology applied erroneously for national security. > > Each of the other public utilities began as private offerings before > becoming commercialized and then institutionalized as necessities, > many eventually near or wholly monopolies. > > Each also evolved into military targets for control, contamination, > destruction, and in some cases excluded as too essential for > civilian livelihood to target. > > Comsec as a right for human discourse rather than a commercial > service could enforce privacy beyond easy violation for official > and commercial purposes. > > Freedom of comsec, say, as a new entry in the US Bill of Rights > could lead the way for it to be a fundamental element of Human > Rights. > > The problem will be as ever the commercial and governmental > exploiters aiming to protect their interests against that of > the public. > > FCC and NIST, indeed, the three branches, are hardly reliable to > pursue this, so beholden to the spy agencies they cannot be trusted. > > NSA's ubiquitous spying on everybody at home and elsewhere > with technology beyond accountability does raise the chances of > getting agreement of all targets -- gov, com, edu, org -- to say > enough is enough, national security has become a catchall for > inexcusable invasion of the public realm. > > > It remembers me when someone proposed that IPv6 encryption should become optional and the proposal was accepted. If we had IPv6 encrypted by now, things would be a little bit different ...
