… to help people in other countries route around gov censorship.
Once you get past the irony, do you get the sense that the fedgov will rue the day that it created these? (NY Times link. Tip o’ hat to PT.)
… to help people in other countries route around gov censorship.
Once you get past the irony, do you get the sense that the fedgov will rue the day that it created these? (NY Times link. Tip o’ hat to PT.)
Yeah, talk about irony. While we should look at what the Gov. did to “help” those people, I’d prefer to depend on our hackers for something similar.
For the very reason that whatever those people get from our Feds, is likely to have some backdoors, so when the local gov. becomes “friendly” with our Government, those techs can be shut down. At least til our Government gets pissed off again.
They don’t really have a great track record for staying friends with anyone. Ask the Native Americans, ask the Vietnamese we abandoned, and the Sunnis or whatever we were supposed to be friends with.
We were also the original supporters of Tor – https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
I’d rather see us promoting anonymity and privacy than bombing random ‘enemies’ around the world. It’s probably also a heck of alot cheaper than a cruise missile.