Comments on: Encrypt the Web, says The Pirate Bay

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:44:51 +0000

^^ who’s the naive one really? If the powers that be must rely on internet spying to catch a few crooks then there’s something fishy going on. The fact is that in the past it wasn’t deemed necessary to trample on and invade the personal lives of all in order to catch criminals, and neither is it necessary today, just because modern technology makes it easy to do so. That’s not freedom, that’s KGB oppression. The “increased” threat of terrorism is just another pretense to do so, along with pedophilia. The media cartels use the same pretense in order to shut down file sharing, when in reality they care about nothing but selfish wealth. Since ISPs are in a position to do so, they could filter out porn if they chose to. But since the internet was founded on porn and star trek, that’s not likely to happen, as it comprises the biggest part of data transfer.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:14:14 +0000

@ readers write

ah so your for legislation to control guns then?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:29:22 +0000

Quote - “Sure, it has the potential to be abused and likely will be (what new technology isn’t?), but privacy for every man woman and child on this planet far outweighs such concerns in my opinion”

Just so full of self righteousness arent you , let paedos roam free (totally) just so you can have your self righteous whinging covered up .
The real world is that no one gives a flying monkeys , use logic instead instead of wearing a silver foil hat for your sad cut and paste argument , just for one second work out how much information is made every minute let alone every day and even with sifting software , how much of a task it is . Its a criminals dream , when you wake up and grow up to the real world problems of terrorism , cyber/real world criminals , paedos and the like then come back with a real mans discussion you little boy .

To the obvious back posters of “youre the one whos naive” , Im not the one protecting the rights of criminals , you are .

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:44:38 +0000

I hope they follow through and it’s wisdom catches on and grows. It’s always bothered me that my ISP and all the hops in between (look up how to do a trace route if you’ve never heard the term “hops” before) can see every forum post and comment I make and know they’re from me. I’ve always wondered, considering the origins of the internet, why all communications are sent/received in the clear and not encrypted to begin with. Encrypting ALL traffic just makes good common sense, always has. Sure, it has the potential to be abused and likely will be (what new technology isn’t?), but privacy for every man woman and child on this planet far outweighs such concerns in my opinion. The only folks who won’t like the idea of encryption will be the ones logging all of your comments, forum posts, e-mails, VoIP calls, IRC chat, messenger chats, p2p traffic, web/ftp downloads, etc. They’ve been doing it for a long time now and are used to knowing every aspect of your life, who wouldn’t want to give up such power? You would be deluded to think it’s been otherwise all this time. Fight the powers that be and start using TOR, True Crypt and GPG today!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:20:59 +0000

Me too I aplaud the Pirate Bay.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:19:39 +0000

it is time to use Tor to stay anonymous but we need encryption to keep everything private.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:59:25 +0000

“Says NewTeeVee: …Of course, ‘the Pirate Bay folks don’t exactly have a good track record when it comes to following through with their plans,’ says the story…”

NewTeeVee is just another business model built around streaming content.
What “Claim to Fame” could anyone there make that would put them in a position to criticize or assess The Pirate Bay’s contributions to the Internet?!

Whether or not The Pirate Bay “follows through” with anything should not be a point. Their efforts have brought a quite a few important internet issues to light - all the time taking a lot of heat from the Entertainment Industry, Governments, etc. If Niej and the gang don’t “follow through” with anything, I still applaud them!

…And, that wouldn’t stop someone with the right resources to “continue the work”, would it?