[bestbits] Do we really want to shoot in Dilma's foot?

Carlos A. Afonso ca at cafonso.ca
Tue Oct 15 11:48:15 EDT 2013


This ultracrepiwhatever is typical of Brazilian journalists :) and I am
probably guilty too...

--c.a.

On 10/15/2013 12:22 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
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> On Oct 15, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
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>> On 14 Oct 2013, at 17:14, michael gurstein wrote:
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>>> Schneier is giving the keynote on precisely this issue at the upcoming IETF
>>> meeting in November.
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>> And then much time is going to be spent focusing on what needs to be done about it.
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> and none of the links seem to support the original claim:
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>>> To add a brief observation, we know from Snowden that the subversion of
>>> Multistakeholderism by the NSA has gone to the very heart of Intenet
>>> development through its actions around standard setting in the IETF (and the
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> however <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec#Alleged_NSA_interference>, is this part of what the IETF is looking at?  Seems the reaction far from a sign of failure, a pointer to a model working.  
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> NSA (GCHQ) activities have gone to the heart of all communications, NIST, ISO, and have no doubt been doing so since CCITT and whatever came before...
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> Isn't ultracrepidarianism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism> a wonderful word describing how we all often behave online.  I know I'm guilty :-) 
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> Adam
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>> avri
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