[governance] US's oversight role

[parminder]

        Cryptographers have long suspected that the agency (NSA) planted
        vulnerabilities in a standard adopted in 2006 by the National
        Institute of Standards and Technology and later by the
        International Organization for Standardization, which has 163
        countries as members.

        Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal
        weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007,
        was engineered by the agency. The N.S.A. wrote the standard and
        aggressively pushed it on the international group, privately
        calling the effort “a challenge in finesse.”

        “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor,” the memo says.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&

This is the government to which we have entrusted the oversight of some 
essential infrastructural features of the Internet.

Continuing on the subject of 'time to get real....'.

parminder

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