sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
The militarization of the Internet
Someone needs to take a good hard look at those Internet surveillance stories being strategically placed on the front page of the New York Times.
There?s a trail here, I believe, that?s worth following. Here are some data points:
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7. The Internet is not the same thing as a telephone network. It?s a decentralized agreement to route packets of information to particular addresses. It has made possible unparalleled innovation, free speech, and improvements to human lives around the world. Retrofitting it to make it fit law enforcement?s (or national security?s) ?authentication? needs would be an enormous, retrograde step.
But it would certainly help us wage war online.
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Susan Crawford is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton?s Center for Information Technology Policy.
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She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company?s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010).
Someone needs to take a good hard look at those Internet surveillance stories being strategically placed on the front page of the New York Times.
There?s a trail here, I believe, that?s worth following. Here are some data points:
snip
7. The Internet is not the same thing as a telephone network. It?s a decentralized agreement to route packets of information to particular addresses. It has made possible unparalleled innovation, free speech, and improvements to human lives around the world. Retrofitting it to make it fit law enforcement?s (or national security?s) ?authentication? needs would be an enormous, retrograde step.
But it would certainly help us wage war online.
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Susan Crawford is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton?s Center for Information Technology Policy.
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She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company?s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010).
