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drastik
Nov 22, 2002, 08:39 AM
After getting the funding to commandeer all of our data sans warrent, the Information Office had a new idea, make internet anonymity impossibel too.

From the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html): (free w/registration)

The plan, known as eDNA, called for developing a new version of the Internet that would include enclaves where it would be impossible to be anonymous while using the network. The technology would have divided the Internet into secure "public network highways," where a computer user would have needed to be identified, and "private network alleyways," which would not have required identification.

Several people familiar with the eDNA discussions said such secure areas might have first involved government employees or law enforcement agencies, then been extended to security-conscious organizations like financial institutions, and after that been broadened even further.



bousozoku
Nov 24, 2002, 05:12 PM
Sounds scary. I can imagine going do a dark alleyway and finding all my important information stolen.

I would hope that there would still be encryption available to private citizens so that their own machines would be private.

After all, you can still smoke and drink in your own house, even if you can't do it everywhere in public.

Computer_Phreak
Nov 24, 2002, 07:34 PM
whatever is released, it can be hacked

this reminds me of XP (activation) in which M$ collected data about you and your computer... but it too was hacked, even before it came out.

Durandal7
Nov 24, 2002, 10:22 PM
Interesting, a moot point as it was rejected however.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/838773.asp?0cv=TB10