Reset the net

by | Jun 6, 2014 | Clouds, IT Blueprint, Security

Reset the Net for safer browsing

Reset the net is an initiative to take back privacy on the internet. It was a day targeting privacy and security on the net. The mission statement: We can’t stop targeted attacks, but we can stop mass surveillance, by building proven security into the everyday Internet. This Site employs SSL as part of the initiative. Mass surveillance is illegitimate. Tekmar is taking steps to ensure privacy and ensure basic Net Privacy. We should expect governments and corporations to do the same. After you sign, protect yourself here.

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We can and must stop targeted attacks. Everyone should implement secure socket layer security. The Reset the Net problem is just not the government’s collection of private data, but all entities that collect and serve it to the highest bidder. It’s just wrong. That the data outside the few protected networks is open to inspection is crazy. My grandparent had a party line telephone in the 1960s. Any of their 12 neighbors could and some did sometimes, pick up the phone and listen. It’s absurd that in the 21st century the #1 tool for communications is like that party phone line 50 years ago. Only, it’s not your neighbors listening in, but the government and big corporations. The problem is ethics.

There was a level of suspicion about an initiative that is sponsored by one of the Internet’s biggest privacy offenders, Google. So, this article laid in draft form pending approval until a few minutes ago when I saw a tweet that related another great issue tied up in this Net ethics concern. (More about Net Neutrality from John Oliver c/o @brainpicker.)

After seeing the Neutrality stuff it seemed important to dig deeper into the Net Reset thing. Google on Wednesday released a test version of promised encryption software. Google joined Microsoft and Facebook in securing internal communications. Earlier this year they brought SSL online for their search interface, too. **See about search privacy**. But outside these few big system all bets are off. It doesn’t have to be this way. Which is where the Net Neutrality raise its head. Shouldn’t all communication be privileged?