Schneier: re-engineer the internet

Bruce Schneier wrote an essay: The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back. The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it “… the US has proved to be an unethical steward of the internet. The UK is no better. “

Yochai Benkler states: Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights

Bruce Schneier: “The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance”

By manipulating Internet traffic to push American data outside of the country, the NSA can vacuum up vast amounts of US citizen data for intelligence purposes, a new report warns.