Most people don’t know much about networking technology and very few of those who do are also aware of how the intelligence agencies intervened in key technical decisions, often covertly. to produce an inherently, irremediably, insecure network, desired by no one – except the intelligence agencies whose nefarious purposes it serves.
Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer, trained in formal logics, which coupled with a powerful imagination inherited from her father, the poet Lord Byron.
Ada dreamed of a future where mankind was freed from laborious, repetitive, procedural thought – and saw that the tedious burden could be lifted by mechanical computation.
Man can fly because computers can count.
The machine envisioned by Charles Babbage and programmed by Ada Lovelace was never built; yet Ada Lovelace knew even so; she and Babbage had changed the world of the future irrevocably and forever.
Ada assumed it was for the better. As did the visionary Vannevar Bush, president of MIT, who imagined the Memex, an automated machine that could call up all human knowledge on microfilm and display it as an aid to fugitive human memory.
Douglas Engelbart dreamt, built and demo’d a networked, collaborative, computer featuring a mouse operated cursor, in a common workspace in 1968.
Engelbart’s technology would reach most of us 30 years later, and change us forever.
Vint Cerf designed what would become TCIP the host protocol of the internet – intended as a DEMO protocol, never meant for wider use, because the headers of IPv4 were unencrypted and information so transported could never be secure.
Vint Cerf didn’t say anything at the time about the lack of encryption, because he says, he was moonlighting for NSA and was not permitted by NDA to mention the encryption he used on the government network being developed at the same time as the anonymous public sewer network, the internet.
Talk to the scientists who built the internet, as anon has, about what they hoped the network could be and the monster it has actually become. You will soon see how key technical decisions were influenced by intelligence agencies.
We might have had a secure, safe, internet for all had not the intelligence agencies wanted otherwise.
The internet is not an insecure network by accident, it is an irremediably insecure network by design.
Why do intelligence agencies want insecure networks for us, and secure ones for themselves? What do intelligence agencies do over networks?
The nonlinear properties of networks powers the who spectrum of criminal activities - all of which facilitated by insecure networking. Child pornography, drug and weapons traffic and the trad in and auction of human beings and human bio-parts.
Integrity rest on identity. On our internet net that means presentation of credentials that destroy anonymity. No one should be anonymous on a network and no one need ever disclose to another any information at all, related to "real world" identity.
In order to be secure FOR ALL, a network must be secure FROM ALL, especially from those who build or maintain it.