In the news

I do not often want to comment the news so today is a special day.

The first piece is an article on the popular subject of NSA Web Surveillance quoting some well-known people starts off on a good direction but gets derailed somehow into recommending obscurity for security. Strange as it is we really should consider anonymizing our access to the Internet. The problem is though that we cannot anonymize the most important part of our Internet access where we real need our real identity and that is the part that delivers most information about us. Sorry, it is not going to work.

I was wondering earlier what the situation of Canada is in relation to the NSA scandal and the article on Canada’s part in NSA plan revealed that we cannot count on Canada to be impartial in the matter. They are in on it and quite likely Blackberry is no better choice than other U.S. controlled mobile phones.

I cannot remember when was the first time I heard that “passwords are dead”, it must have been years and years ago but this same mantra is repeated over and over again every year. Now the passwords are dead at Google. Well, tell you what, long live passwords!

And suddenly Vint Cerf, one of the guys at the beginnings of the Internet, is preaching for the devil. He is working for Google, of course, so his opinion that we all should “give up a degree of privacy in order to be protected” is likely Google’s, not his own. On the other hand, if you ask me I would say he should watch what he says, people believe him more or less unconditionally and his moral obligation is to not peddle the loss of privacy for all of us.

Here you go. I seem to disagree with nearly all of the news today. Which is good news!