Posted by: Sleepless April 30, 2012
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1. If you think HTTP is internet, you are wrong.
2. If you think you have a KILL SWITCH for internet, again you are wrong.
It is different autonomous systems getting together to form a network for everyone sharing content among each other. It is a very distributed system, though activists like Anonymous always argue they can take down 13 root-servers and take down the internet. False!! It is not 13 servers that scale for such massive distributed system. There are many characteristics of the Internet that is quite difficult to take down in its entirety. You might blackhole youtube from a Pakistani ISP, but not the Internet.
Corporations might think CISPA is more inclined towards security and not privacy that very much. I would agree. From a corporation point of view, they know how vulnerable the Internet has become. They would absolutely want to work with the legislators than themselves trying to defend against security.
But the bigger picture is - when laws are written there are clause(s) that can be taken advantage of. There will be some lawyer that will try to take advantage of it for their benefit. I support a secure Internet, but I also support an Open Internet.
I think this is just a beginning of the new era. Cyber threats and security is as much of a national security concern, as anything else. But there is a need to secure the fundamentals of Internet. That is connectivity, sharing and openness. We have to come to a compromise, but nobody knows for sure YET where that compromise lies.
2. If you think you have a KILL SWITCH for internet, again you are wrong.
It is different autonomous systems getting together to form a network for everyone sharing content among each other. It is a very distributed system, though activists like Anonymous always argue they can take down 13 root-servers and take down the internet. False!! It is not 13 servers that scale for such massive distributed system. There are many characteristics of the Internet that is quite difficult to take down in its entirety. You might blackhole youtube from a Pakistani ISP, but not the Internet.
Corporations might think CISPA is more inclined towards security and not privacy that very much. I would agree. From a corporation point of view, they know how vulnerable the Internet has become. They would absolutely want to work with the legislators than themselves trying to defend against security.
But the bigger picture is - when laws are written there are clause(s) that can be taken advantage of. There will be some lawyer that will try to take advantage of it for their benefit. I support a secure Internet, but I also support an Open Internet.
I think this is just a beginning of the new era. Cyber threats and security is as much of a national security concern, as anything else. But there is a need to secure the fundamentals of Internet. That is connectivity, sharing and openness. We have to come to a compromise, but nobody knows for sure YET where that compromise lies.