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It is all about the keys (PKI)

-150 points posted to Broadband and Mobility by catalyst 04/01/07

The Internet much like nuclear weapons is too powerful to be controlled
by one government. Especially the US Government.
The battle is not Linux Vs Microsoft or Apple.
The battle is over PKI. (That is the point I have been trying to make.)
You have heard the mainstream media talk about .xxx TLD's.
You do not hear them talking about this.
SAIC does not want this! The business model I have discribed
at www.saic.tv prevents this orwellian intrusion, simply by it's very design.
I would invite engineers from outside the USA to study the data presented
in my article on OLPC. (Additionaly 5 or more global alpha servers operating
"indi"pendantly of government would keep everyone honest.)

(Here is the article.)
Slashdot and Cryptome report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed. With the master key, DHS would have control over the Internet, as Slashdot describes, quoting an "anonymous reader."

The key will play an important role in the new DNSSec security extension, because it will make spoofing IP-addresses impossible. By forcing the IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] to hand out a copy of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to the Internet without much effort.

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jervis961
04/01/07		 So Microsoft is supporting terrorists?
cosh
04/01/07		 I don't understand. That's not an idea. Do you want us to promote or demote it?
cyphercell
04/01/07		 You're mad aren't you?
"But I don't want to go among mad people." - Alice in Wonderland
catalyst
04/02/07
catalyst
04/02/07		 @mainland China
You can get in at
www.clwtv.com (URL available in China)
catalyst
04/02/07		 The Operators
Root servers are operated by twelve organisations often referred to as the "root server operators". They are
A - VeriSign Global Registry Services
B - Information Sciences Institute
C - Cogent Communications
D - University of Maryland
E - NASA Ames Research Center
F - Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
G - U.S. DOD Network Information Center
H - U.S. Army Research Lab
I - Autonomica/NORDUnet
J - VeriSign Global Registry Services
K - RIPE NCC
L - ICANN
M - WIDE Project

For more info www.isoc.org/briefings/019/
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