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| ICMP Packets for Peace: Another UN Proposal |
| 2010-02-01 |
| Found via Free Republic For technology challenged individuals see here for a discussion on what an ICMP packet is. To TFA: The basic part of the Internet is the First Amendment. The Internet has always been used for communications purposes and that is its main use now. The UN bureaucrat calling for a "drivers licence" for the Internet misses the point. In American, the birthplace of the Internet, we don't hamper free speech, and those who don't abuse free speech by calling for murder, for example, suffer when governments makes an excuse out of those who do to constrict everyone's most basic right. A key passage: Mundie and other experts have said there is a growing need to police the internet to clampdown on fraud, espionage and the spread of viruses. We already have party vans for the internet. “People don't understand the scale of criminal activity on the internet. Whether criminal, individual or nation states, the community is growing more sophisticated,' the Microsoft executive said. Fred understands it. Spamming is theft, pure and simple. And even with new laws there is a monetary limit to what would be caled an Internet crime. Spending billions on expanded police powers would be the last, least effective solution. “When there is a pandemic, it organises the quarantine of cases. We are not allowed to organise the systematic quarantine of machines that are compromised.' Yes, you are. You just won't kill off raw sockets on Windows. He also called fo a “driver's license' for internet users. “If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance There's an idea. Create a whole new bureaucracy to deal with Internet griefing. "badanov. you are charged with posting a comment on the Internet that upset people. Who is your insurance company and how do you plead?" "American Internet General (AIG)! And I did it for the LULZ and FTW!" |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Spoofing is easy to fix if routers are configured to not pass on packets that have a return IP that cannot possibly have been routed from. It's the "last mile" routers not the computers that need fixing. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-02-01 13:53 |
| #3 Be a real shame if these guys' internet connection got all flakey on 'em, huh? Just sayin' - it's not the muckety-mucks that keep the thing running. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-02-01 10:22 |
| #2 So the're going to require "Insurance against accidentally offending someone's sensibilities"? This is basically licensing speech. Pure and Simple. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-02-01 08:31 |
| #1 If the UN is for it, I'm against it. |
| Posted by: Spot 2010-02-01 08:06 |