Serve Yourself: Shifting Power Away from the Brothers

Published: Apr 15, 2000
Updated: Apr 15, 2000
Section: Network Security Library :: Privacy
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Company: University College London
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Why should Big Brother do all the work, with an (Inter)network of Little Brothers to hand? CALEA'd telcos and banks who "know their customer" are just two examples of intermediaries co-opted through government regulation to store reams of information on their customers. Little Brothers have all the advantages of other distributed systems - scalability, reliability, high performance... We need to take decentralisation one step further, and claw back control from Big Brother and his little siblings.

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