Lan Barnes wrote: > - Politicians the world over hate and fear (with good reason) the > uncontrolled flow of information. I'm surprised they've let it happen > this long. Expect demands from every corner to build technical controls > into internet traffic to "protect" us all from pornography, terrorism, > space aliens, evil daemons, and movie/music pirates. But mostly to > protect us from learning the truth.
I think this is a very quotable quote. > What I would like to see is a technical answer to the political pressure > ... multichannel routing that can't be throttled (or bugged), > distributed name spaces that can be citizen controlled (why can't KPLUG > have a name space and name server?), stuff like that. How could they put > toll booths and check points on the roads if we could all build our own > roads and add road signs? I am hoping Freenet and similar P2P networks can someday provide us with this. We need an anonymous bittorrent that has a name space that allows us to navigate the information like the www. Freenet continues to work towards that goal although it is proving harder than anyone ever imagined. After several years of effort, a year ago they threw out the old freenet and started a ground up redesign. I am hopeful that the lessons learned the first time around will make the second design more successful. They sure do seem determined. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
