[LINK] The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying

> The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
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> The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it

> Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us.
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> By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillance platform, the NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. The companies that build and manage our internet infrastructure, the companies that create and sell us our hardware and software, or the companies that host our data: we can no longer trust them to be ethical internet stewards.
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> This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back.
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> And by we, I mean the engineering community.
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> Yes, this is primarily a political problem, a policy matter that requires political intervention.
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> But this is also an engineering problem, and there are several things engineers can – and should – do.


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