Posted on 09/23/2016 6:22:05 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
Obama’s actions giving away ICANN without Congressional approval are illegal. President Trump’s first action should be to end this transfer immediately.
ICANN is a rather flawed organization already, putting it in any sort of alliance with China or the United Nations (or global Islam) will quickly turn it into an extremely flawed organization.
I hope that the Congressional forces seeking to keep ICANN under the auspices of the U.S. government succeed; almost any other alternative would likely be worse.
On the other hand, one also wonders if “the internet” will survive much longer or if some entirely different arrangement will come out of the blue to replace it. Just as nobody really foresaw the existence of the modern internet in the 1970s or early 1980s, nobody today can really foresee what might exist to provide communication in ten or twenty years, or who might oversee that.
We have been very fortunate to retain as much internet freedom as we have done for as long as possible. There are a dozen different ways this could all go wrong, ranging from censorship-style oversight to predatory pricing to case by case telecom withdrawal of service.
In the future, it might be necessary to have an encrypted internet for contentious subject matter and the site owners would then sell decryption technology so that willing parties (users) could participate. I’m not saying this would be a good thing, but it might become a necessary thing to keep discussion sites alive.
We are going to make them PAINFULLY PAY for every freaking INCH!
Right. He’s flying in the face of properly legistlated federal law. They already defunded this transition and then in mid-August Strickling [his guy on this] proudly confesses that they broke federal law.
Everybody has access to the same encryption algorithms. If we did not, then we would have security by obscurity which always fails eventually. What China could conceivably do is crack our encryption keys using quantum computing. AFAIK that hasn't been done yet, but I'm sure they and the NSA are working on it. Also, as you mentioned, they could protect their own comms using quantum encoding of some sort. I don't know that works at line speeds yet. It works in the lab but AFAIK only at low speeds.
Whoever controls the strongest network of communication satellites
We have are uniquely vulnerable in space comms mainly by having the most to lose. I don't think an attack on encryption is the worst threat. The worst threat is destroying or disabling our satellites.
That's true. China has a couple goals: domination of their parts of the world. Control of natural resources wherever they can control. Controlling the internet for their population. Profit (as it supports the other goals). If they can gain financially from controlling the internet they will, maybe by charging those dictators for disabling parts of the internet they don't like. They also have to allow access to the internet or lose out on physical product sales, but more importantly lose on encryption and every other software endeavor.
So they have to keep the internet going for their benefit but restrict speech for their survival and potentially for profit.
You know a lot more about encryption than me. I could really use your help on another thread:
China’s Conquest of Internet, ICANN + Quantum Encryption
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3473008/posts
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