Another reason why any moves toward forced https: are so potentially dangerous
https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/N5c2RiTSBPf (Google+) The Internet is already far too dependent on centralized authorities. We've seen the DNS abused by LEOs (Law Enforcement Organizations) and courts, not to mention being turned into an extortion racket by many gTLD domainers and the domain-industrial complex. Any moves that would make Net communications even more dependent on centralized entities should be non-starters. I don't care who the central entities are -- even with the best of intentions they could be manipulated by LEOs, courts, crooks, black hat hackers, intel agencies, or whomever to the detriment of potentially vast numbers of sites coerced into dependency on issued certs and the associated "chains of trust." --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
