[LINK] Fw: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Brits' Failed Heavy Metal Censorship Attempt Disrupts Wikipedia Edits

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:54 AM 9/12/2008, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>6) Finally, the matter of privacy. The intrusion is far more than the
>old "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument. User communications on
>the Internet are by nature private: Bob seeks to establish a connection
>to Alice, and the infrastructure provides Alice's address. Filtering
>assumes that all users commence their communication with evil intent,
>captures the attempt to establish a connection, and only allows those
>connections to pass that the filter deems acceptable. This is an
>intrusion on the majority of users, whose intent is nothing more than to
>look at YouTube or buy something or pay a bill. It is also capturable;
>the attempt to find something in the DNS, via the filter, means the
>filter is now a snoop-point not just for "evil" connections, but for all
>connections.

Isn't this akin to the other British attempt to snoop on all Internet 
communications?

Is anyone looking at the interactions of these various 'projects'?

Jan



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