On 2 August 2011 22:50, Tony Rutkowski
Suggested reading in this forum should be Eugeny Morozov's The Net Delusion. It explains techno-political reality to the cyber utopians of the world.
That reality includes the ability of almost every government to circumvent anonymous capabilities. Conversely, if mandated by national law, those mandates impose significant costs on everyone in an unrealistic attempt to protect the paranoia of the few. Those costs include major distortions in national trade in services (effectively moving the services offshore), and diminishing innovation in provisioning new services. In addition, the attempts of most nations to instantiate cybersecurity infrastructure protection capabilities combined with enforcing IPR protection and protection of children online, is a losing battle.
--tony
I agree on one hand to this statement. I think you correctly point to the fact that it becomes intractable for a centralised authority to oversee the activity of a whole communications infrastructure; but if you also mean that the protection of an individual's privacy, and the representation of an individual's activity over a collection of devices for a set period of time is similarly doomed, I will have to disagree. -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. You've go a job for me working full-time from an office? No thanks. Clique Space(TM). Practical, Ubiquitous, Individual, and Real-time Security and Identity in Cyberspace. Research paper on Clique Space: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 Owen's Garden of Thought: http://owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @CliqueSpace http://www.elance.com/CliqueSpacewww.cliquespace.net Skype: owen.paul.thomas Mobile: +61 401 493 433