[165545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sat Sep 7 21:09:50 2013
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:09:25 +0000
In-Reply-To: <522B95CF.2090206@mykolab.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 8, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> As a result, these transmissions expose Canadians to potential U.S. surve=
illance activities =96 a violation of Canadian network sovereignty."
Yes, far better to keep those communications within Canada - where CSEC can=
hand them over to GCHQ, who'll then hand them over to NSA . . .
;>
There are no technical solutions to purely social ills. This set of issues=
has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with civil society=
. Any meaningful change in the status quo will not originate the technolog=
ical realm, but rather in the political sphere. =20
Quite frankly, all this chatter about technical 'calls to arms' and whatnot=
is pointless and distracting (thereby calling into question the motivation=
s behind continued agitation for technical remedies, which clearly won't ha=
ve any effect whatsoever).
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