[governance] RE: [webwewant] Surveillance discovered in Brazil

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Sat Jun 22 10:42:42 EDT 2013


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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> What seems to be rapidly emerging is that this is a multi-centred problem
> (you didn't mention Canada and the other members of the "5 eyes" group) and
> of course the actions of more traditional state actor surveillance players
> such as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia etc..  All of this is requiring of some
> sort of global response and presumably in the ideal world (and as presumed
> goals for ourselves) the development of some sort of global means and
> mechanisms, tools and institutions for the privacy protection of all of us
> "foreigners"/citizens of the Universal States of the Internetworked… (USI
> for short) :)

It's called ipsec OR "encryption".

We could spend a lot of time and money developing an int'l Treaty or Framework
(or whatever we want to call it), but the bottom line is that if you
don't want your traffic
snooped, you'd better use some strong encryption.

TCP/IP  is akin to sending a postcard, not a sealed, certified letter.

Regards,

McTim

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