Comments on: Internet Freedom. Or Is It?: A Guest Post by Rodriguez http://www.harpyness.com/2011/10/24/internet-freedom-or-is-it-a-guest-post-by-rodriguez/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:22:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: elibard http://www.harpyness.com/2011/10/24/internet-freedom-or-is-it-a-guest-post-by-rodriguez/comment-page-1/#comment-76004 elibard Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:36:53 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21468#comment-76004 I think this goes hand-in-hand with the US’s tight-fisted control over encryption techniques. Currently US companies & products are not allowed to use best practices in encryption, because of fear that it will mean the highest-level, most sophisticated encryption techniques will fall into “our enemies’ ” hands. This is a valid concern, but it is also holding back our own encryption algorithms, which is, perhaps ironically, putting us at greater risk from data robbery by entities in other countries.

The people passing laws on encryption and the “freedom of the internet” do not fundamentally understand them and their implications for our future.

]]> By: Vagina Dentata http://www.harpyness.com/2011/10/24/internet-freedom-or-is-it-a-guest-post-by-rodriguez/comment-page-1/#comment-75933 Vagina Dentata Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:01:11 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21468#comment-75933 “….But in the short term, unintended, unforeseen consequences always lurk…..”

They are not always unintended nor unforeseen by those who would initiate actions that have consequences.
Sometimes the ‘consequences’ are the true intention.

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