Internet Tsar
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 07:55PM
It is not common knowledge that the internet is--for the most part--run out of the US department of commerce. It is here that the dot-this and dot-that and country extensions and so one gets worked out for most of the world wide web. It is also where most of the perfectly legal tinkering takes place.
Enter Obama's Internet Czar (Tsar, Minister, Baron, Marquis, bitch, whatever) whose job will be to rob commerce of another of its primary responsibilities and move it into the White House somewhere between ACORN's office of the Census and the Ministry of American made Automobiles.
It can't be ignored that having oversight for one of the few free and widely accessible information mediums under Obama's paw feels kind of dirty. Even disguised as this-is, as an effort to develop and coordinate to protect us from internet terrorists, it reeks of alterior motives. Particularly when you have people at DHS releasing unapproved rouge reports on said medium that make convenient accusations about classes of individual's who are least inclined to be infatuated with Mr. Obama's gossamer tones.
I mean it doesn't take much for a government already well beyond its constitutional limitations to alter a few definitions before what constitutes a threat is whatever they decide is a threat. And with the executive executing with direct knowledge and access to the greatest resource for dissention yet conceived, the conspiracy theorists are in for a long rough couple of years.
Reader Comments (3)
http://www.torproject.org/
http://www.darkreading.com/security/encryption/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217801293
Veiled is basically a "zero footprint" network, in which groups can rapidly form and disappear without a trace. It connects the user's HTML 5-based browser to a single PHP file, which downloads some JavaScript code into the browser. Pieces of the file are spread among the members of the Veiled darknet. It's not peer-to-peer, but rather a chain of "repeaters" of the PHP file, the researchers say.
"It's a file on a Web server, but I can also host one on my Website, for example, and we can join those two files together," Wood says. "It's very distributed."
The researchers are building encryption into the file distribution network as a way for users to remain anonymous and communicate securely.
I think I'll have to make time to read more about this. Thanks