Re: Who controlls the Internet?

[Cian Brennan <cian.brennan () redbrick dcu ie>]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:58:01PM -0700, andrew.wallace wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tarig Yassin <tariq198487 () hotmail com> wrote:
> > I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
>
> The truth to your question is, anybody who wants to. Hackers, activists, 
> governments, terrorists all have the ability to control it. But probably not all 
> at the same time. 
>
>
> With the increase in irresponsible security disclosures by folks such as Tavis 
> Ormandy, power and control is very much being handed to "the people".
>
> I have been campaigning for a while to get tighter laws introduced on 
> irresponsible security disclosures, to give the government more control over the 
> internet.
Which government? There are rather a lot of them, and they all have a
legitimate interest in control over the internet (or at least their chunk of
it. Good luck deciding where their chunk ends though).

> Andrew Wallace