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Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:09:25 +0000


On Sep 8, 2013, at 4:08 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

As a result, these transmissions expose Canadians to potential U.S. surveillance activities – a violation of Canadian 
network sovereignty."

Yes, far better to keep those communications within Canada - where CSEC can hand them over to GCHQ, who'll then hand 
them over to NSA . . .

;>

There are no technical solutions to purely social ills.  This set of issues has nothing to do with technology, and 
everything to do with civil society.  Any meaningful change in the status quo will not originate the technological 
realm, but rather in the political sphere.  

Quite frankly, all this chatter about technical 'calls to arms' and whatnot is pointless and distracting (thereby 
calling into question the motivations behind continued agitation for technical remedies, which clearly won't have any 
effect whatsoever).

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