Omfg that's looooong!
Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
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Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#12Broken for whom?
The Dutch for one, whose major ISP Ziggo still does not provide IPv6.
They do provide IPv6. RIPE Atlas features at least 6 probes that are in Ziggo's AS (ASN9143):
See https://atlas.ripe.net/api/v2/probes/?asn_v6=9143
Thing is it only works in non-bridged mode latest generation Technicolor modems. If you need bridge mode, they will switch you back to IPv4.
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really ironic - Tor is used for spam all the time.
Just like VPNs, proxies and abuse tolerant networks. If you can't prevent the spam by other means than IP blocking then maybe you should make your website read-only.
Or just block the sources of abuse while everyone else enjoys and can act on the content. Or just block comments from anonymous nets so they can at least read. Comment sections that are Wild West hurt branding too much for it to be an option.
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#14The EFF warned long ago something was going on when AT&T was putting beam splitters on Internet backbones to feed the NSA. Then Snowden revealed how everything is tapped.
Then, be sure all mainstream encryption is "NOBUS". Nothing is truly random. Someone somewhere has the master key: elliptic curve cryptography using magic numbers from NIST? "Secure boot" by Intel? OpenSSL? Microsoft software? All backdoored.
Trust no one.
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#15Excellect! It's the most cogent analysis that I've seen from him. Damn, what a fucking hero!
A few comments, however ...
> ... we had to go to the dark side to be able to confront the threat posed by bad guys. We had to adopt their methods for ourselves.
He's using "we" there in reference to the government. But it can also be read with "we" as you and me, and "bad guys" as the government ;) But then, I claim a broad "right to be left alone", one that doesn't concede any state monopoly on power.
> ... you can’t opt out of governmental mass surveillance that watches everybody in the world without regard to any suspicious criminal activity or any kind of wrong doing.
Well, sure you can ... as he goes on to explain ...
> You would need to act like a spy to pursue a career in a field like journalism because you are always being watched.
... and ...
> Instead of changing your phone to change your persona — divorcing your journalist phone from your personal phone — you can use the systems that are surrounding us all of the time to move between personas.
Right! Compartmentalization is for sure the way to go. There are numerous personas like Mirimir. Maybe I make it too distinctive. But I have no meatspace identity that goes on like Mirimir does. And Mirimir, ve has lots of vis personas. So hey, let's create a tangled morass of overlapping personas ;)
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#16> But at the same time, we technologists as a class knew academically that these capabilities could be abused, but nobody actually believed they would be abused. Because why would you do that? It seemed so antisocial as a basic concept.
I guess so? Not me though. Snowden literally only proved what I had learned on my own.
> But we were confronted with documented evidence in 2013 that even what most people would consider to be a fairly forthright upstanding government was abusing these capabilities in the most indiscriminate way.
Um. Who thought this? Ever? Since the 90s.
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#17Isn't this article laced with sordid propaganda?
Stopped reading after "The now-infamous... " and noticed the comment "Broken for whom?" posted below by a user almost immediately after the article was posted on HN.
I wonder who this individual is?, who feels happy about our dragnet/mass surveillance programs. And what he thinks about "hack open just this phone" to "does not scale" statements recently?
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#18The EFF warned long ago something was going on when AT&T was putting beam splitters on Internet backbones to feed the NSA. Then Snowden revealed how everything is tapped. Then, be sure all mainstream encryption is "NOBUS". Nothing is truly random. Someone somewhere has the master key: elliptic curve cryptography using magic numbers from NIST? "Secure boot" by Intel? OpenSSL? Microsoft software? All backdoored. Trust…
Just possibly old versions of truecrypt.
This author's conclusions seem quite sound to me. They collapsed it in a way to comply with a gag order while silently sounding an alarm.
https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/my-analysis-of-what-really-happ...
Anyone operating in this space is eventually going to get the same option as Lavabit's founder: compromise or collapse.
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#19> But at the same time, we technologists as a class knew academically that these capabilities could be abused, but nobody actually believed they would be abused. Because why would you do that? It seemed so antisocial as a basic concept. I guess so? Not me though. Snowden literally only proved what I had learned on my own. > But we were confronted with documented evidence in 2013 that even what most people would consi…
You knew GCHQ tapped Google's datacenter-to-datacenter links?
Re: Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
#20Soo... roll out your own crypto?