[128174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who controlls the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cian Brennan)
Sun Jul 25 19:18:27 2010
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:18:12 +0100
From: Cian Brennan <cian.brennan@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <988255.20513.qm@web59612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:58:01PM -0700, andrew.wallace wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
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> The truth to your question is, anybody who wants to. Hackers, activists,
> governments, terrorists all have the ability to control it. But probably not all
> at the same time.
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> With the increase in irresponsible security disclosures by folks such as Tavis
> Ormandy, power and control is very much being handed to "the people".
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> I have been campaigning for a while to get tighter laws introduced on
> irresponsible security disclosures, to give the government more control over the
> internet.
>
Which government? There are rather a lot of them, and they all have a
legitimate interest in control over the internet (or at least their chunk of
it. Good luck deciding where their chunk ends though).
> Andrew Wallace
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