On May 21, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Juiceman wrote: > I saw an article at > http://www.militaryaerospace.com/index/display/mae-defense-executive-article-display/6351237926/articles/military-aerospace-electronics/executive-watch-2/2010/5/darpa-internet_security.html > which states: > > "DARPA wants industry to develop technology that also provides the > quality of service to enable the government to use Internet services > like instant messaging, e-mail, social networking, streaming video, > voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and video conferencing. > > The four-year SAFER program concerns any technologies that enable > anonymous Internet communications to bypass techniques that suppress, > localize, and/or corrupt information such as: > > -- Internet protocol (IP)-address filtering or "blocking," typically > by blacklisting the IP addresses of Websites or other services -- > possibly by the network operator -- to deny the user access; > > -- domain naming service (DNS) hijacking, redirecting a user to a > different website or service from what the user intended, by supplying > a false reply to the user's domain name resolution request; and > > -- content filtering that captures and analyzes the content of the > user's network traffic through deep packet inspection to check whether > the traffic contains predefined signatures or sensitive keywords." > > > I just found it interesting.
Interesting indeed! I think this just goes to show how fundamental secure communication is; or even reliable communication. I've seen what are presumably bad squid servers repeatedly corrupt http traffic, and there is no way around it but to download the file 5-6 times and zip them together. Aside that, I've often desired a secure point-to-point communication channel similar to the friend-to-friend "Spread Freenet" idea, but where freenet is a heavyweight solution. I think that Freenet's best way to gain ground would be to get it's link-layer into linux distro's with: * a simple p2p chat (maybe precisely the node-to-node messages?), * a way to share/update p2p apps (such as Freenet's present app) * a simple (preferrably secure) way to "virally" spread as needed (email-to-a-friend/etc.) -- Robert Hailey
