On May 21, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Juiceman wrote:
I saw an article at
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/index/display/mae-defense-executive-article-display/6351237926/articles/military-aerospace-electronics/executive-watch-2/2010/5/darpa-internet_security.html
which states:
"DARPA wants industry to develop technology that also provides the
quality of service to enable the government to use Internet services
like instant messaging, e-mail, social networking, streaming video,
voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and video conferencing.
The four-year SAFER program concerns any technologies that enable
anonymous Internet communications to bypass techniques that suppress,
localize, and/or corrupt information such as:
-- Internet protocol (IP)-address filtering or "blocking," typically
by blacklisting the IP addresses of Websites or other services --
possibly by the network operator -- to deny the user access;
-- domain naming service (DNS) hijacking, redirecting a user to a
different website or service from what the user intended, by supplying
a false reply to the user's domain name resolution request; and
-- content filtering that captures and analyzes the content of the
user's network traffic through deep packet inspection to check whether
the traffic contains predefined signatures or sensitive keywords."
I just found it interesting.
Interesting indeed!
I think this just goes to show how fundamental secure communication
is; or even reliable communication. I've seen what are presumably bad
squid servers repeatedly corrupt http traffic, and there is no way
around it but to download the file 5-6 times and zip them together.
Aside that, I've often desired a secure point-to-point communication
channel similar to the friend-to-friend "Spread Freenet" idea, but
where freenet is a heavyweight solution.
I think that Freenet's best way to gain ground would be to get it's
link-layer into linux distro's with:
* a simple p2p chat (maybe precisely the node-to-node messages?),
* a way to share/update p2p apps (such as Freenet's present app)
* a simple (preferrably secure) way to "virally" spread as needed
(email-to-a-friend/etc.)
--
Robert Hailey
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