I've become increasingly more disgusted with IETF since I found out they have at least a few NSA agents working with them on protocols, and more importantly refusing to kick them out - even after all the Snowden revelations with NSA trying to subvert and undermine encryption protocols:
Then I find out that they've been working with Cisco on another similar thing to this one for "legal intercepts", a.k.a "trusted backdoors", like we're seeing above.
With NIST being already corrupted by the NSA, and now W3C becoming corrupted by MPAA, too, I think we're seeing the decay and fall of the "standard bodies", because I don't believe the Internet will tolerate these moves. The Internet will ignore them, do its own thing, and make it popular. I think future standards will be built from the bottom-up, and if I'm not mistaken most of the Internet so far has been built that way anyway.
It's not like they are just some "ordinary" bad guys, like A&T, who just want to make some bucks. The NSA is one of the most dangerous enemys to free speech and the freedom of the Internet. There is a high chance that they are going to undermine all our efforts to make a free and secure internet.
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I've become increasingly more disgusted with IETF since I found out they have at least a few NSA agents working with them on protocols, and more importantly refusing to kick them out - even after all the Snowden revelations with NSA trying to subvert and undermine encryption protocols:
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_oper...
Then I find out that they've been working with Cisco on another similar thing to this one for "legal intercepts", a.k.a "trusted backdoors", like we're seeing above.
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/Bl...
With NIST being already corrupted by the NSA, and now W3C becoming corrupted by MPAA, too, I think we're seeing the decay and fall of the "standard bodies", because I don't believe the Internet will tolerate these moves. The Internet will ignore them, do its own thing, and make it popular. I think future standards will be built from the bottom-up, and if I'm not mistaken most of the Internet so far has been built that way anyway.
If you consider a standards body corrupt because they have a single member you disagree with, you might be failing at politics.
It's not like they are just some "ordinary" bad guys, like A&T, who just want to make some bucks. The NSA is one of the most dangerous enemys to free speech and the freedom of the Internet. There is a high chance that they are going to undermine all our efforts to make a free and secure internet.