Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Monday, April 3, 2017
Stop the Obama administration from surrendering authority over the Internet
Stop the Obama administration from surrendering authority over the Internet
The "IANA Transition" took a big step forward this month and we are one step closer to the US government handing control over the DNS and IP numbering to a vaguely-defined group accountable, effectively, to nobody.
What with the weirdest Presidential election in my lifetime going on its easy to imagine important public policy events going unnoticed. One of them is that the Obama administration is moving closer to surrendering the US governments stewardship of the Internets numbering and naming systems.
To put it bluntly, I dont understand why we would do this. The only changes it could bring are bad ones. Once our authority over the parties administering core Internet infrastructure is gone, ultimate political control over it is gone. I think this is a bad thing. The US has done an admirable job of supervising the development of the Internet and theres no evidence that it has ever exerted untoward influence over the processes. I like the idea that the administrative bodies are clearly accountable to some clearly independent body.
We all know now that the Internet began as a US government project. Administration of parts of it was eventually outsourced, first to Network Solutions Inc and then to a non-profit corporation created just for the task: ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN operates autonomously, but under a contract from the US government, specifically from the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) in the US Department of Commerce.
In early March Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, reiterated the Obama administrations commitment to transfer their authority over the IANA, the part of ICANN which controls the numbering system, to "the global multistakeholder community." The community he names, in the form of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), has delivered to the NTIA a formal proposal for the transition. Strickling says that the NTIA will be reviewing the proposal to make sure it meets their requirements, some of which are pure bureaucratic blather and some uncontroversial niceties.
This particular agreement deals only with the numbering system, not naming. Naming, in the form of control of the DNS root zone, is run by Verisign under a separate agreement with the NTIA, in cooperation with ICANN. But the administration has also announced their intention to surrender that authority.
The NTIA is much more directly involved in the DNS administration process (see image below). All changes to the root zone, the root-servers.net zone, and the root hints file must be approved by the NTIA acting as Root Zone Administrator.
The processes shown in the diagram have been significantly modernized in recent years, and public input is always sought when changes are proposed.
The NTIA function as Root Zone Administrator is just an extra check and so Verisigns proposal is simply to remove it. As a test, parallel authentication processes would be run for a time and compared for consistency. If there are none for some agreed period of time , success is declared and the new system goes hot.
This leaves ICANN and Verisign as the authoritative bodies controlling the DNS. A new agreement would be needed between ICANN and Verisign or, theoretically, whatever other body ICANN and the vaunted global multistakeholder community choose to operate as Root Zone Maintainer. No such agreement has yet been revealed.
Who is the "global multistakeholder community" to which the NTIA refers? Its basically the same shifty technocracy that has been running ICANN for a while, the one that makes gobs of money for themselves by creating top-level domains like .christmas and .florist. To replace the NTIA oversight functions they will create new entities, all part of ICANN. In other words, ICANN will police itself. The supervisory bodies will, in theory, have the ability to change operators for the numbering or naming systems, but Im skeptical.
There are potential legal problems with the proposed transition. See section 539(a) of the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016" (i.e. the Federal budget), which forbids funds from being used "to relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, during fiscal year 2016..."
Then theres Article IV, Section 3 of the US Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States." Is the NTIAs authority over the naming and numbering systems on the Internet "Property belonging to the United States?" To my mind, obviously yes. Its certainly valuable and there are plenty of parties who would pay a lot of money to have it.
But Im not a lawyer. Internet law scholar and retired law professor David Post, blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy, disagrees with me, basically arguing that this authority is not "property" in any relevant sense. Obviously there is more than one way to look at this.
Many of you non-Americans are wondering why the US gets such authority. Easy. We made the Internet. Weve made sure that it could be as free and open as it is. Dont like it? Call your congressman. Its a good thing that the US government and not (oh, for example) the United Nations, has been in charge. The plan is not to put them in charge, but once clear authority is gone, who knows where it will end up.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
TǸlǸcharger IDM Internet Download Manager 6 25 Build 1 Avec Patch
TǸlǸcharger IDM Internet Download Manager 6 25 Build 1 Avec Patch
Description:Internet Download Manager (IDM) est un outil pour augmenter
t‚l‚chargement
des vitesses de jusqu… 5 fois, reprendre les t‚l‚chargements dhoraire. ComplŠte des erreurs et reprendre la capacit‚ va red‚marrer bris‚s ou les t‚l‚chargements interrompus en raison de la perte des connexions, des problŠmes de r‚seau, arrˆts dordinateur ou de pannes de courant inattendue. Interface utilisateur graphique simple rend IDM convivial et facile … use.Internet Download Manager a une puce logique acc‚l‚rateur de t‚l‚chargement qui offre la segmentation dynamique des fichiers et des technologies de t‚l‚chargement en plusieurs parties pour acc‚l‚rer vos t‚l‚chargements. Contrairement … dautres gestionnaires de t‚l‚chargement et dacc‚l‚rateurs segments de Internet Download Manager fichiers t‚l‚charg‚s dynamiquement pendant le processus de t‚l‚chargement et r‚utilise les connexions disponibles sans connexion et se connecter ‚tapes suppl‚mentaires pour atteindre les meilleures performances dacc‚l‚ration.
- Change log:
* Am‚lioration moteur de t‚l‚chargement de lIDM
* Ajout du support pour SeaMonkey 2.38
* Correction de bugs
t‚l‚chargement
des vitesses de jusqu… 5 fois, reprendre les t‚l‚chargements dhoraire. ComplŠte des erreurs et reprendre la capacit‚ va red‚marrer bris‚s ou les t‚l‚chargements interrompus en raison de la perte des connexions, des problŠmes de r‚seau, arrˆts dordinateur ou de pannes de courant inattendue. Interface utilisateur graphique simple rend IDM convivial et facile … use.Internet Download Manager a une puce logique acc‚l‚rateur de t‚l‚chargement qui offre la segmentation dynamique des fichiers et des technologies de t‚l‚chargement en plusieurs parties pour acc‚l‚rer vos t‚l‚chargements. Contrairement … dautres gestionnaires de t‚l‚chargement et dacc‚l‚rateurs segments de Internet Download Manager fichiers t‚l‚charg‚s dynamiquement pendant le processus de t‚l‚chargement et r‚utilise les connexions disponibles sans connexion et se connecter ‚tapes suppl‚mentaires pour atteindre les meilleures performances dacc‚l‚ration.
- Change log:
* Am‚lioration moteur de t‚l‚chargement de lIDM
* Ajout du support pour SeaMonkey 2.38
* Correction de bugs
Home Page : https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/
INSTALL NOTES
(1): T‚l‚charger Internet Download Manager
(2): ex‚cuter la configuration
(3): Utilisez le Patch pour activer
(4): Profitez et Support D‚veloppeurs, Acheter, ils le m‚ritaient!
(1): T‚l‚charger Internet Download Manager
(2): ex‚cuter la configuration
(3): Utilisez le Patch pour activer
(4): Profitez et Support D‚veloppeurs, Acheter, ils le m‚ritaient!
Internet Download Manager 6.25 Build 1 Final (6.38 MB)
Internet Download Manager 6.25 Build 1 Final Patch (6.61 KB)
Internet Download Manager 6.25 Build 1 Final Patch (6.61 KB)
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Cost of Maintaining Internet Safety
The Cost of Maintaining Internet Safety
In todays quickly-moving business world, there are a great many potential threats to a growing company. A lot of these have come about in part because of the rise of the Internet. There are more and more reported instances of Internet crime each day. To help you get an idea of the scope of the problem, lets take a look at the states where Internet crime is reported with the greatest frequency. California takes the top spot, with 34,169 complaints reported in 2011. Florida takes second place with 20,034. Its fairly obvious that this is a growing threat.
In order to protect your data and your companys profitability, its important to know how to protect your data, to know your rights, and to know how to avoid hefty fines. In order to combat the rising threat of Internet crime, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) now requires telecommunications providers and equipment manufacturers to provide surveillance capabilities in their products so that federal agencies have the ability to monitor Internet and phone activity as well as VoIP traffic. Its a partnership that is taking great strides toward fighting the rise of Internet crime.
What does this mean for your business? In short, you need to ensure that your company is CALEA Compliant. The fines for ignoring this responsibility are hefty, often reaching up to $10,000 per day. The total consequences of failing to comply with CALEA standards can be as high as half a million dollars for a single breach of protocol. This is something worth taking very seriously, and hammers home the idea that everybody who participates in the Internet has a certain set of responsibilities to the greater community.
In order to protect your data and your companys profitability, its important to know how to protect your data, to know your rights, and to know how to avoid hefty fines. In order to combat the rising threat of Internet crime, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) now requires telecommunications providers and equipment manufacturers to provide surveillance capabilities in their products so that federal agencies have the ability to monitor Internet and phone activity as well as VoIP traffic. Its a partnership that is taking great strides toward fighting the rise of Internet crime.
What does this mean for your business? In short, you need to ensure that your company is CALEA Compliant. The fines for ignoring this responsibility are hefty, often reaching up to $10,000 per day. The total consequences of failing to comply with CALEA standards can be as high as half a million dollars for a single breach of protocol. This is something worth taking very seriously, and hammers home the idea that everybody who participates in the Internet has a certain set of responsibilities to the greater community.
Source: GoWifi.
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
Utiliser Internet de maniÇùre anonyme
Utiliser Internet de maniÇùre anonyme
les outils n‚cessaires pour ˆtre parfaitement anonyme et pour prot‚ger sa vie priv‚e sur le net. Entre ces outils, on trouve:
- Tor pour surfer sur l?internet sans laisser de traces, ainsi que son Torbutton afin de se prot‚ger des codes JavaScript malicieux.
- I2P, un r‚seau d‚centralis‚ et dynamique permettant de surfer et communiquer de fa‡on s‚curis‚e et en tout anonymat.
- HTTPS Everywhere, une extension qui force votre navigateur … n?acc‚der aux sites web les plus connus et utilis‚s qu?en mode https.
- GnuPG, la version libre de PGP, le logiciel le plus populaire et reconnu de chiffrement des e-mails et fichiers, qui permet ‚galement de signer ses mails, et donc de les authentifier, de sorte d?‚viter toute usurpation d?identit‚.
- TrueCrypt, qui permet de chiffrer un simple fichier, une partition entiŠre d?un disque dur ou un p‚riph‚rique, comme une cl‚ USB.
- PWGen, un g‚n‚rateur de mots de passe solides.
- Un clavier virtuel permettant d?entrer ses mots de passe en cliquant sur des cases avec sa souris plut“t que d?avoir … les taper sur son clavier, afin de se pr‚munir des keyloggers qui enregistrent tout ce que l?on tape sur son clavier d?ordinateur.
- MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit pour rendre anonymes les m‚ta-donn‚es contenues dans les fichiers;(dates de cr‚ation et de modification, coordonn‚es GPS, identit‚ de l?utilisateur de l?ordinateur ou de l?appareil photo, etc.).
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