[136698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Feb 4 01:38:41 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimUBZUpjByNasd-3zoDTaCHeW66ieQJ06nJ9-ZO@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:38:37 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Essentially, I'm not seeing the upside in assuming any state will
> always be good, forever and always. And it boils down to what's been
> discussed earlier: centralizing control of the Internet, whether
> political or technical, makes it less robust to failures and more
> prone to abuse/attack, as the value of a single point or target
> increases.
>
In this, we completely agree.
And as an aside, governments will always believe that that they can control
the flow of information, when push comes to shove.
This has always been a hazard, and will always continue to be so.
As technologists, we need to be cognizant of that fact.
- - ferg
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