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Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0
Lauren Weinstein writes "You'd think that with so many concerns these days about whether the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and other telecom companies can be trusted not to turn our data over to third parties whom we haven't authorized, that a plan to formalize a mechanism for ISP and other 'man-in-the-middle' snooping would be laughed off the Net. But apparently the authors of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Internet-Draft 'Explicit Trusted Proxy in HTTP/2.0' (14 Feb 2014) haven't gotten the message. What they propose for the new HTTP/2.0 protocol is nothing short of officially sanctioned snooping."
If I had a son who told me he was gay, I would nervously say "Th-that's okay, son," while choking back tears. Not tears of joy, but the tears of terrible disappointment. I would become sullen and withdrawn, sighing and staring out the window. My wife and I would run our son's life through our heads over and over and over again, wondering where we went wrong. Was my wife too overbearing? Was it that time he missed catching the football I threw him and got a bloody nose? Did the girls at school pick on him too much? Did he watch too much of Viacom's degenerate homosexual miscegnative swill on TV?
I would stand with him at little-league games staring at the ground out of shame and embarrassment that my son is a fairy playing on a team of young men. I wouldn't even bother teaching him about save sex, as he'll be dead in a few years anyway, with AIDS. Maybe I'd secretly change my last name and move to a different town, so none of the neighborhood chatter would associate me with the defective offspring sashaying around the Pride parade dressed like Rob Halford or Elton John, performing rhythmic gymnastics with his limp wrists.
What if that happened? Man, oh man, I don't know what I'd do. It's not like you can just toss kids out and go get another one.