Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
Paul Ferguson
fergdawgster at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 06:38:37 UTC 2011
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Essentially, I'm not seeing the upside in assuming any state will
> always be good, forever and always. And it boils down to what's been
> discussed earlier: centralizing control of the Internet, whether
> political or technical, makes it less robust to failures and more
> prone to abuse/attack, as the value of a single point or target
> increases.
>
In this, we completely agree.
And as an aside, governments will always believe that that they can control
the flow of information, when push comes to shove.
This has always been a hazard, and will always continue to be so.
As technologists, we need to be cognizant of that fact.
- - ferg
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