____/ alt on Monday 10 December 2007 04:50 : \____
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:43:10 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Music Industry Pressures EU Politicians for Filtered Internet
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The music and film industry continues to pursue its idea of a |
>> politically "corrected" Internet - one that they imagine could protect
>> their | old business models without requiring any extra costs on their
>> part. |
>> | This time, the fix is Internet-wide filtering. In a memo to European |
>> policy-makers, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries
>> has | called upon ISPs in Europe to filter the content sent across their
>> networks, | block protocols used by their customers, and cut off access
>> to persistently | infringing sites from the Net (you can read their full
>> memo here). Left | unsaid in it was the obvious implication: if ISPs
>> aren't willing to comply, | EU regulators should force the ISP's hand.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/12/music-industry-europe-filter-
> pressure
>
> Time to go encrypted my friends... first its bittorrent they'll censor.
> then what will they censor? NNTP? FTP? SMTP? WWW? Are we looking at the
> future where only "approved" material is allowed?
If you choose to go encrypted, be sure to stay out of the Gates|NSA|Otellini
axis. There are back doors in chips, phones, and operating systems. This
includes encryption algorithms.
Cryptome: NSA has access to Windows Mobile smartphones
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1028
Microsoft confirms that XP contains random number generator bug
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9048438&intsrc=hm_list
Chip Design Flaw Could Subvert Encryption
http://www.crm-daily.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11200BH5USIO
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