Brin: The End of the Internet?

2006-03-02 Thread The Fool

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
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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 
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Re: Brin: The End of the Internet?

2006-03-02 Thread David Brin
One more reason for me to buy a legacy IBM chip Mac.

sigh


--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 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 
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 http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
 

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