One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by higherpurpose on Sunday February 23, 2014 @07:16PM (#7288390)

I've become increasingly more disgusted with IETF since I found out they have at least a few NSA agents working with them on protocols, and more importantly refusing to kick them out - even after all the Snowden revelations with NSA trying to subvert and undermine encryption protocols:

http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_oper...

Then I find out that they've been working with Cisco on another similar thing to this one for "legal intercepts", a.k.a "trusted backdoors", like we're seeing above.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/Bl...

With NIST being already corrupted by the NSA, and now W3C becoming corrupted by MPAA, too, I think we're seeing the decay and fall of the "standard bodies", because I don't believe the Internet will tolerate these moves. The Internet will ignore them, do its own thing, and make it popular. I think future standards will be built from the bottom-up, and if I'm not mistaken most of the Internet so far has been built that way anyway.

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Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by wmf on Sunday February 23, 2014 @07:52PM (#7288507)

If you consider a standards body corrupt because they have a single member you disagree with, you might be failing at politics.

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Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by 666c6f on Monday February 24, 2014 @08:06AM (#7290513)

It's not like they are just some "ordinary" bad guys, like A&T, who just want to make some bucks. The NSA is one of the most dangerous enemys to free speech and the freedom of the Internet. There is a high chance that they are going to undermine all our efforts to make a free and secure internet.

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