Monthly Archives: May 2010

Privacy through peer-to-peer

We have a tricky problem to solve as we begin to use the Internet on more and more devices: making our data available on all of them. These devices include desktop computers, laptops, phones, tablets, consoles which play movies and music, cars with telnet ignition interfaces, etc. I believe that the only tenable long-term solution [...]

The Internet: A Democracy

Tonight I appeared briefly on ABC’s programme Q&A which was this week about Internet filtering. I asked of the panellists a question which read: (John Gilmore famously once said, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” However,) “The Net” is not some robot but the result of how everyone uses it. Since [...]