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Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet
trbdavies writes "The Associated Press reports: 'President Dilma Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company's network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google. The leader is so angered by the espionage that on Tuesday she postponed next month's scheduled trip to Washington, where she was to be honored with a state dinner.' Among Brazil's plans are a domestic encrypted email service, laying its own fiber optic cable to Europe, requiring services like Facebook and Google to store data generated by Brazilians on servers located in Brazil, and pushing for 'international rules on privacy and security in hardware and software during the U.N. General Assembly meeting later this month.'"
Do it, do it! While your at it make sure you do the same thing for every other country that spies on other countries on the Internet. Don't forget about countries ranging from France to China to Russia and the vast majority that I haven't named. Take your righteous indignation with you, close your borders and don't forget to ask North Korea how being isolated from almost the entire country is is working out. Dead Dear Leader while be very impressed by his converts on the other side of the world that have taken his lessons about self reliance in stride.
I'm sure Iran can give you pointers about having your own country specific version of the Internet (what do you call that - CAN / Country Area Network?)
Meanwhile the rest of the world that hasn't quite gotten around to ordering tinfoil hats by the pallet is realizing that security actually is an issue and that you can't treat it as an afterthought. Instead people are having a wake up call and starting to realize that security has to be designed into things from the beginning, used throughout the /entire/ process and that you have to stop thinking your going to secure your environment by installing a firewall and the latest antivirus suite.
You have two choices, keep playing the NSA boogeyman card whilst everyone else robs you blind, or get your act together and start doing what you should have been doing to begin with. Blaming the worlds computer security problems on the NSA is a bit like blaming Top Gear for death of old Morris Marina's. There really aren't that many flying pianos and pretty soon you've got to realize that's a lot more to the picture.