U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
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U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
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Re: U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
#2The argument about US "control" of ICANN has always seemed a little surreal to me. I took this photo on the roof-top deck at ICANN (they know how to throw a good party!) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/90065267@N00/10056736345/ . That's the Whitehouse, and the US Capitol in the distance, that proximity of influence isn't going away.
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#3In December 2012, I did something utterly stupid. I found a leaked email list of all attendees of the World Conference on International Telecommunications and gave them my uncensored thoughts on the dangers of a closed and censored internet.
Received back like 30 non-deliveries, same amount of vacation replies confirming to me that they would be at the attendance (good social engineer hack, I suppose), and zero substantive replies.
I assume I'm definitely on a list for several govts since it went out to US/European, Middle East, and Asian govt officials as well as the heads of several private companies.
But now I see I won them all over...I did this.
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#4The Post's headline seems a big optimistic, since the news report is about whether the U.S. government will claim to be the core authority administering the DNS root (and other IANA functions). The article says the government will now relinquish this claim. But it seems like there are certain other ways in which the U.S. government exercises "control over the Internet".
Re: U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
#5In December 2012, I did something utterly stupid. I found a leaked email list of all attendees of the World Conference on International Telecommunications and gave them my uncensored thoughts on the dangers of a closed and censored internet. Received back like 30 non-deliveries, same amount of vacation replies confirming to me that they would be at the attendance (good social engineer hack, I suppose), and zero subst…
Certainly. This explains it all.
But more seriously, don't worry. If you are on any list, it's one for activists and the like. At least, whenever you have problems crossing a border or experience "curious behavior" of your computer in the future, you have an explanation.
It might console you that there are a lot of people out there that are on lists and don't have the slightest clue. I'm thinking of IT-employees in European/Asian infrastructure companies whose personal access will be attacked should an interested player want to hijack/scrape something running on that infrastructure (as happened in the Belgacom hack).
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#6This is actually a pretty big deal. I was around at the formation of ICANN. At the time I remember saying "the fix is in" as a result of the interactions between Network Solutions (the sole contractor prior to ICANN) and government connections with SAIC corp a big contractor with ties to the government security community.
http://www.saic.com/markets/national-security/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions
It's a big deal because given the security connections I never thought this type of thing would happen.
Re: U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
#7The argument about US "control" of ICANN has always seemed a little surreal to me. I took this photo on the roof-top deck at ICANN (they know how to throw a good party!) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/90065267@N00/10056736345/ . That's the Whitehouse, and the US Capitol in the distance, that proximity of influence isn't going away.
I can see my window in that pic, yet had no idea ICANN is over there on 17th.
You're right about proximity. Within that radius chances are you're a government employee, lobbyist or lawyer.
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#8More likely: U.S. agencies are confident enough in their other means to control the internet that they're willing to gain back a little good will by appearing to give up some control over ICANN.
Let's not forget that the FBI/etc reserve the right to shut down any website for any reason, whether via a letter to a service provider, or simply showing up and confiscating hardware in the name of "national security". And you can bet they're not going to stop pushing SOPA clones either.
Re: U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
#9More likely: U.S. agencies are confident enough in their other means to control the internet that they're willing to gain back a little good will by appearing to give up some control over ICANN. Let's not forget that the FBI/etc reserve the right to shut down any website for any reason, whether via a letter to a service provider, or simply showing up and confiscating hardware in the name of "national security". And y…
The Great Satan strikes again.
Re: U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
#10It's both great news and horrible news, like some kind of quantum event.