CNGI: Impending Doom, or Just Another Y2K Scare?
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I was flipping through the latest issue of Newsweek a few minutes ago and by chance I came across an article on China's economic growth. Normally this isn't my kind of reading material, but while I was skimming the article I stumbled on a few paragraphs that caught my attention. China is apparently inventing the next-generation internet.
Let me repeat that in case it didn't sink in the first time I said it: THE COMMUNISTS ARE INVENTING THE NEXT INTERNET. And it's supposed to be faster, more secure, has trillions of new IP addresses, and your IP address can be traced back to your computer even if you change service providers.
Is anyone else scared shitless by this prospect? I mean I don't know jack about the inner workings of the 'net so I might just be misinterpreting this or something, but the idea of anyone being able to track me on the internet terrifies me. What does this mean for net privacy? Porn enthusiasts? Torrents?
Let me repeat that in case it didn't sink in the first time I said it: THE COMMUNISTS ARE INVENTING THE NEXT INTERNET. And it's supposed to be faster, more secure, has trillions of new IP addresses, and your IP address can be traced back to your computer even if you change service providers.
Is anyone else scared shitless by this prospect? I mean I don't know jack about the inner workings of the 'net so I might just be misinterpreting this or something, but the idea of anyone being able to track me on the internet terrifies me. What does this mean for net privacy? Porn enthusiasts? Torrents?
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I'm sure Big Red will make it work for it's own people, but I doubt that anyone else in the world will go for it; unless we end up getting nuked all to high heaven by them in which case. All hail our great leader, Chairman Mao.
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Comartemis wrote...
I was flipping through the latest issue of Newsweek a few minutes ago and by chance I came across an article on China's economic growth. Normally this isn't my kind of reading material, but while I was skimming the article I stumbled on a few paragraphs that caught my attention. China is apparently inventing the next-generation internet.Let me repeat that in case it didn't sink in the first time I said it: THE COMMUNISTS ARE INVENTING THE NEXT INTERNET. And it's supposed to be faster, more secure, has trillions of new IP addresses, and your IP address can be traced back to your computer even if you change service providers.
Is anyone else scared shitless by this prospect? I mean I don't know jack about the inner workings of the 'net so I might just be misinterpreting this or something, but the idea of anyone being able to track me on the internet terrifies me. What does this mean for net privacy? Porn enthusiasts? Torrents?
So? What's it matter if they're communist or not?
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Nashrakh
Little White Butterflies Staff
Comartemis wrote...
I mean I don't know jack about the inner workings of the 'net so I might just be misinterpreting this or something, but the idea of anyone being able to track me on the internet terrifies me.Then you better get off the internet now.
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Things to be worried about re: future of the net would have been acta, loi hadopi, digital economy bill, etc. - not some red scare.
But -surprise!- when people like gibbous spoke of all that, you riffraff thought that was just paranoia and it was never going to happen.
WHOOPS!
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But -surprise!- when people like gibbous spoke of all that, you riffraff thought that was just paranoia and it was never going to happen.
WHOOPS!
Nashrakh wrote...
get off the internet now.^-
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People can already track you if they have the resources, knowledge, and legal authority to do so.
Imagine it like how the government can track your license plate number. Anyone can see it, and those who have the resources (police databases, etc)can find out who's vehicle that was, and trace it back to you. Any activities that were observed when you were using your vehicle can be traced back to you. All they need is a warrant, and then you're convicted. Now just switch out that vehicle with a computer, and that is how people (the government in particular) can track you on the Internet right now. Programs like PeerGuardian, and a few others can reduce the risk of being spotted.
There is no such thing as net privacy in the Internet, unless you use an encrypted proxy or VPN service like BlackVPN which I beta tested. Then you are mostly safe. All China is doing is making it easier for people be tracked, and as long as the Internet is acceptably fast, I don't really see a problem with that. Of course, you would need to find another way to get your illegal content.
So if you are terrified of the thought that you can be tracked on the Internet, you should be terrified now. You live in an Internet where your Internet activities can be traced back to your person. Luckily the government doesn't really get involved in the affairs of people on the Internet.
Imagine it like how the government can track your license plate number. Anyone can see it, and those who have the resources (police databases, etc)can find out who's vehicle that was, and trace it back to you. Any activities that were observed when you were using your vehicle can be traced back to you. All they need is a warrant, and then you're convicted. Now just switch out that vehicle with a computer, and that is how people (the government in particular) can track you on the Internet right now. Programs like PeerGuardian, and a few others can reduce the risk of being spotted.
There is no such thing as net privacy in the Internet, unless you use an encrypted proxy or VPN service like BlackVPN which I beta tested. Then you are mostly safe. All China is doing is making it easier for people be tracked, and as long as the Internet is acceptably fast, I don't really see a problem with that. Of course, you would need to find another way to get your illegal content.
So if you are terrified of the thought that you can be tracked on the Internet, you should be terrified now. You live in an Internet where your Internet activities can be traced back to your person. Luckily the government doesn't really get involved in the affairs of people on the Internet.
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Rothen wrote...
So if you are terrified of the thought that you can be tracked on the Internet, you should be terrified now. You live in an Internet where your Internet activities can be traced back to your person. Luckily the government doesn't really get involved in the affairs of people on the Internet.What he said^!
China has always been pulling that crap with their citizens. They have always been heavily censoring the entire Internet in their country simply because they're a communist government and they like to have almost complete control of their people. So to be perfectly honest, unless you live in China, you don't necessarily have to worry about what kind of "New" technology they say they are making to be able to track everything you do on the internets.
You just need to worry about your own ISP's privacy policies on how you can use your internet connection and the laws of your current jurisdiction for how they go about getting search warrants. If they need warrants at all.
For example, I'm on Comcast, and I'm pretty sure by law, or possible Bill of Rights amendment(I should really check on that myself...)they are NOT allowed to monitor the type of traffic that flows over my internet connection and the content of that traffic. They can, however, monitor my bandwidth and they have since put a 250 gigabytes a month limit on all their subscriber's connections because people have been grossly abusing their connections in the past.