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 On 8/1/2011 8:08 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
risks to many of the dispossessed or disadvantaged in the world. Why should people have to go hide offline to enjoy privacy of their communications?