[governance] Could the U.S. shut down the internet?

[Fouad Bajwa]

I guess many countries are already conducting Deep Packet Inspection
including my country through NarusInsight, the same surveillance
system used to shutdown the Internet in Egypt as well as control the
Internet that monitors Twitter, Facebook and Cell Phone caller account
activity.

The company is Boeing owned and based in California.............I rest
my case! The issue may also be for future consideration for the free
and open source software community to develop counter Traffic
Intelligence and DPI software.............

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/01/narus_boeing-owned_company_is.php


--- Foo

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>> > But I think there is a good warning that we should heed in this
>> > note and that we should start preparing now for the next regime
>> > that decides to take the network down, that we need to support
>> > those who are being prosecuted now for their content and we should
>> > work on the diversification and distribution of control and
>> > governance.
>
> Are you sure that it's wise to support *all* "who are being prosecuted
> now for their content"?
>
> I'd suggest that some content is so bad that it's clearly only
> appropriate to persecute those who would put such content online,
> provided that due process is followed etc. Commercial child
> pornography is a famous (and much-abused) example.
>
> I'd suggest that beyond that there's a gray area of types of content
> concerning which different views are legitimately possible.
>
> And then there are also categories of content which are clearly
> legitimate from a human rights perspective, even if powerful or
> otherwise influential people might seek to suppress some
> information. In recent discussions the primary concern was about
> oppressive government authorities, but we need to keep in mind that
> sometimes also private sector entities wish to suppress information
> by any (more or less) legal means available. And I think that given
> humanity's sad history with regard to religion-related violence,
> the potential possibility of some kind of terrorist group seeking
> to suppress specific types of religious content (that they disagree
> with) should be taken into consideration in the list of dangers to
> defend against.
>
> I think that we should develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing
> specifically the suppression of kinds of content which are clearly
> legitimate. I agree that one element of such a strategy must be to
> support people who are persecuted for having published such (clearly
> legitimate) content. Further key elements should IMO be to work on the
> technical level to make the suppression of legitimate content more
> difficult, and at the legislative level for the correction of laws
> that can be abused too easily.
>
> Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -- is this regime something that may be in development in the form of
>> what happened during the December consultations in New York and CSTD
>> in Geneva? Something that may evolve through enhanced cooperation
>> banner?
>
> I wouldn't expect anything that could potentially reduce the power
> of governments to be an outcome from activities that are carried out
> under such a banner.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
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