[166666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sat Nov 2 22:31:16 2013
In-Reply-To: <20131103020704.GA32665@laperouse.bortzmeyer.org>
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:30:36 -0500
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've never seen a byte claiming any nationality, Internet network topology i=
s not geopolitical (at least a vast percentage of it) and routing policy !=3D=
politics. When now in a "cloud" world your data may get replicated anywhere=
, trying to create "islands" (which btw are not immune to eavesdropping) onl=
y limits the access and level of service to end users.
The NSA issue (which is not just the NSA or the USG) is a political problem,=
given the mandate and the funds, any agency in the world will try to sniff d=
ata wherever it is located, and sometimes it does not require too much techn=
ology or investment, often the weakest link is a badly paid technician or co=
rrupt enough government official, anywhere.
My .02=20
-Jorge
> On Nov 2, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:=
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> On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:12:54PM -0400,
> Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote=20
> a message of 8 lines which said:
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>> The balkanizing of the Net?
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>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa=
-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/
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> So, to host your content in the servers of NSA providers is freedom
> and hosting it anywhere else is balkanizing the Internet?=20
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