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Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping

Posted by timothy on from the and-what-does-this-guy-know? dept.

Jack Spine writes "The inventor of the World Wide Web has pointed out some of the dangers of deep packet inspection. Sir Tim said that ISPs 'snooping' on data was similar to the interception of mail. 'This is very important to me, as what is at stake is the integrity of the internet as a communications medium,' Berners-Lee said on Wednesday. TBL's comments come as the UK government is gearing up to intercept all web communications in the UK through the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and echo comments he made last year about Phorm."

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  1. Inventor of the world wide by ericrost · · Score: 5, Funny

    The inventor of the world wide what?

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    1. Re:Inventor of the world wide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I accidentally the whole world wide. Is this bad?

    2. Re:Inventor of the world wide by Godwin+O'Hitler · · Score: 4, Funny

      Its a typo. It should read "word wide". TBL invented the word "wide" because prior to then most things were narrow.

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    3. Re:Inventor of the world wide by vishbar · · Score: 2, Funny

      There's a goatse joke to be made here. I'm just not quite sure what it is.

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  2. pants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    world wide pants!

  3. Freedom to Conspire by MarkvW · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which side are you on: CONTROL or KAOS? That is the question. The Government can only answer that question if it can intercept your communications. Are you going to let them? Can you stop them? Do you care?

    All I can say is that you should Get Smart!

  4. Re:The dream of encryption by FooAtWFU · · Score: 3, Funny

    Weirdo.

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  5. Re:At this point does it need to be said? by Boomerang+Fish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I used to do this...

    Then I lost the key due to a hard drive and floppy disk failure within the same week (wow, that dates this a bit...)

    Now I have these wonderful encrypted documents that contain proof of alien intervention with the history of our planet and I can't get at it anymore...

    D*MN YOU GRAYS!!!

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  6. Re:At this point does it need to be said? by Obfuscant · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now I have these wonderful encrypted documents that contain proof of alien intervention with the history of our planet and I can't get at it anymore...

    Just mail a copy of each one to yourself at another account and someone will decrypt them for you. I can't tell you who, I've already told you too much and I'm afraid awi3qu91 108OI)

    [NO CARRIER]

  7. Re:The dream of encryption by sortius_nod · · Score: 2, Funny

    It did, you just bought the Vista version...

    A slashdot poster would like to use sarcasm.

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