On 2 August 2011 22:50, Tony Rutkowski <trutkowski@netmagic.com> wrote:
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.

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