Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping 113
Jack Spine writes "The inventor of the World Wide Web has pointed out some of the dangers of deep packet inspection. Sir Tim said that ISPs 'snooping' on data was similar to the interception of mail. 'This is very important to me, as what is at stake is the integrity of the internet as a communications medium,' Berners-Lee said on Wednesday. TBL's comments come as the UK government is gearing up to intercept all web communications in the UK through the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and echo comments he made last year about Phorm."
Re:The dream of encryption (Score:5, Informative)
What do you mean "Weirdo"?
Anybody that uses a Unix based system (BSD, Linux, Solaris) all use a variant of OpenSSH.
Anybody that buys stuff on the net uses 128bit SSL.
Even that child porn dude that's in the supreme court knew enough to use TrueCrypt.
Or even another encryption used: WEP and WPA. There's 2 very standard, "non-weird" encryptions. They just arent terribly strong.
Re:The dream of encryption (Score:3, Informative)
And the way to fix SSL, is to switch to using PGP keys [gnu.org].
TBLs personal view (Score:1, Informative)
Sir Tim, posted his personal view to #swig on irc.freenode.net [1]
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NoSnooping.html
[1] http://swig.xmlhack.com/2009/03/11/2009-03-11.html#1236787895.276276