Panopticon
blueprint by Jeremy Bentham, 1791
(see also Athanasius Kircher's Phonurgia nova, 1673)
Law framework
- France
- ...
- supra-national
- office/work law
Actors involved
Means of enforcement
Legal and social ways to counter
Technical way to counter
- BitTorrent
- Seedfuck
- FreeNet
- HostileWRT
- strong encryption
- Computational Trust applied computational trust
- artificial noise
- traffic mixing
- understanding the topology and infrastructure of the network
- not limited to the Internet
- HTTPS Everywhere by The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Firefox extension that encrypts communications with a number of major websites
- VPN
- Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) Project by the EFF
Note that such tools are useless unless properly understood by the user. It is riskier to falsely feel safe that to knowingly be unsafe.
Proposals
See also