Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.
Tag Archives: Internet
BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row
An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week.
China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.
Mystery vandals are cutting fiber-optic cables in California – how worried should we be?
Somebody is cutting underground fiber-optic cables in Northern California and the FBI wants to know why. Just how vulnerable is the internet to sabotage?
FCC net neutrality proposals tackle internet fast lane – why no one is happy
The latest proposal by the FCC for rules governing the internet leave the door open to an internet “fast lane.” In essence, the battle over net neutrality comes down to who has legal authority over the internet, and whether ISPs can do, well, whatever they want.