Mark Durham wrote:
Better classified as "social engineering"....
Internet engineering should reflect societal needs, has had (and will
continue to have) a profound impact on social and other
organisation........
Re-posted from the istf list - www.istf.org:
As has been pointed out time and again here in the last few days,
the only impact (relevant to this list) in action terms has been
efforts to constrict the free and self-determining nature of the
Internet. How will this help terrorism from taking shape in the
future? Does anyone truly believe it will?
May I request that we continue to focus on ways to ensure that the
freedoms inherent in the structure of the Internet be preserved,
rather than destroyed by creeping limitations. The only way to
battle terror is through knowledge (capturing hearts and minds).
Limiting the flow of knowledge will only be destructive. And will
not serve the purpose anyway. To quote John Viscount Morley, a
British parliamentarian and pacifist, "You have not converted a man
because you have silenced him".
Some of the effective anti-terror solutions will be through policy,
some through technology, just as some of the putative restrictions
are through policy (e.g. the use of Carnivore) and some through
technology (e.g. Ellison's fingerprinter, and MS' XP distortion of
802.11).
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Dominic Pinto
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