"Internet Politician" is a good word... Brian, Could you tell us more about encrypted P2P communication. (I am not a technical person). Thanks in advance.
Regards, Shubhranshu Choudhary Freelance Journalist 312, Patrakar Parisar Sector 5, Vasundhara Ghaziabad 201012 India Ph - + 91 98110 66749 e mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/22/04, Brian King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For protecting human rights, vis a vis repressive governments, > anonymity, many of us agree, is key. > > I had the fascinating, unsettling experience of working in a country > last year in the tumultuous months preceding a coup d'etat. Virtually > all media outlets were forcibly closed, journalists were harassed and > silenced, and foreign news entities were expelled. People needed to tune > in to foreign news agencies to hear reports on their own country. The > international communications channel was the Internet. The President > disparaged the "Internet politicians" publicly and threatened to shut > down the Net, but ultimately could do little to stop the phenomenon. > > If the Government in this case had had more advanced snooping ability > (as, say, China I imagine must have), they could have identified the > so-called 'Internet politicians' and silenced them. > > For this reason I am a believer in highly-encrypted peer-to-peer (P2P) > models of collaboration and communications that are emerging. I promote > these to counterparts when I get the chance. Encrypted P2P can keep the > international channel open and offer greater security of communications. > > Yes, they can be used by 'bad people' too. Still, if we agree that > networks are smarter than individuals, getting the people and trends > that we would like to see grow, securely networked, is a good step in my > book, and outweighs the potential downsides. ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
