On calls the regulate the internet
Kim Colbourne writes: Re. “Theresa May’s call to ‘regulate the internet’ is a fantasy world of insecure security” (Monday)
The only thing that would be left on the internet if there were built-in backdoors to encryption would be Twitter. And the only one posting on that would be Trump.
At a time when the web community is being encouraged to leave behind http and instead secure websites behind https (encryption certificates) a sitting Prime Minister wants to argue for a completely insecure web?
Les Heimann writes: Re. “Theresa May’s call to ‘regulate the internet’ is a fantasy world of insecure security” (Monday)
If the internet is not safe — and no, it never will be — why not communicate in writing?
Not every new thing is an improvement.
LesH – the ole pen & wood pulp wasn’t so safe either. My first job with the PMG in the early 60s in the basement of the Martin Place GPO was to take the day’s suss mail upto the 7th floor where the covert office opened, read and resealed as required.
As Kafka noted, the overweening state was perfectly functional a hundred years ago and Walsingham was no slouch in the goose quill days of Elizabeth I.
<IPace William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic I thnk that the only semi secure method of data transmission fairly soon will Lycra louts laden with thumb drives zooming around the streets on unicycles.
It’s joke that at a time when the frailties of the internet are being exposed almost daily the CBA is pushing online banking at the expense of phone banking. Phone banking at least gives you a double check on transaction details.
I wonder if regulation would include a typo checker “On calls the regulate the internet“?