[governance] NSA sabotage of Internet security standards

[parminder]

    On the Cryptography mailing list, John Gilmore (co-founder of
    pioneering ISP The Little Garden and the Electronic Frontier
    Foundation; early Sun employee; cypherpunk; significant contributor
    to GNU/Linux and its crypto suite; and all-round Internet superhero)
    describes his interactions with the NSA and several obvious NSA
    stooges
    <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.technology.liberationtech/1185> on
    the IPSEC standardization working groups at the Internet Engineering
    Task Force. It's an anatomy of how the NSA worked to undermine and
    sabotage important security standards. For example, "NSA employees
    explicitly lied to standards committees, such as that for cellphone
    encryption, /*telling them that if they merely debated an
    actually-secure protocol, they would be violating the export control
    laws unless they excluded all foreigners from the room*/ (in an
    international standards committee!)." (emphasis added)

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/08/firsthand-account-of-nsa-sabot.html

What does it say for the US staying as a neutral, global interest 
protecting, venue for global governance of the Internet!

parminder
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