[AusNOG] Consensus from the IETF 88 Technical Plenary - Internet hardening

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

>  The status quo is clearly deficient on both counts.

I don't think it's deficient on technology front, in this context.  

Governments can and will trump technology with laws, regulations, actions contrary to those very same laws and regulations, and with their near-infinite resources.

The only defenses against governmental abuse of power are political ones.  

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