[Make-wifi-fast] on savewifi.org and establishing the value to the world of wifi

[dpreed at reed.com]

Highly related issue here:
 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-threatens-security-and-safety-locking-down-us-policy-source-code-audit
 
I've been involved behind the scenes with fighting this trend toward embodying imperial power in secretly negotiated trade agreements, which have the force of national law in all adopting countries. The first round was focused on intellectual property (so-called Xcast rights, which would grant websites absolute rights to block transmissions of content, *independent of copyright and copyright assignments* by the creators).

This new round appears to be focused on establishing absolute international "trade secrecy" rights.  So much so, that the rights to embed surveillance tools and backdoors is considered to be in the best interests of the corporate/national power elites.
 
That means any ownership of your personal private communications goes out the window - unless of course you trust NSA, GCHQ, China, Google, ATT, Verizon, Russia, various manufacturers of communications gear, etc. *all* to be interested in your personal privacy. and capable of finding and fixing all backdoors/security flaws, ... in everything sold across borders. That's a lot to trust.
 
 

On Saturday, December 5, 2015 6:59am, "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com> said:



> I had a couple meta-thoughts this morning about how to make the real
> importance of wifi more apparent.
> 
> A thought would be to ask various folk (or do a contest, or ask the
> world at large) - to write an essay or story where they
> 
> A) imagine a world where wifi never happened
> 
> or
> 
> B) Or one where it was made more illegal than it is today (or less -
> what would wifi be like if wep and wpa not been adopted, favoring e2e
> encryption, and responsibility for running open APs didn't fall on the
> owner)?
> 
> or
> 
> C) imagine one where wifi fails completely (As it already does in
> large cities and at distance, and in crowded areas)
> 
> or
> 
> D) talked about what they used wifi for originally and what they use
> it for today.
> 
> or
> 
> E) What it could be used for tomorrow?
> 
> I've done a lot of story-telling about what wifi means and meant to
> *me* over the years... (and can easily do more)
> 
> but I'll argue that discussion on everything from serious stuff
> analysing the economic impact, the change in people's habits, the rise
> of entirely new markets, to trival stuff like "how wifi save my
> poodle's life", to stories like Stross/Doctorow's "the unwirer"......
> (which I remember reading online, it's well worth buying) [1]
> 
> in order to preserve this wonderful freedom-full wireless technology
> we are so in danger of losing.... as it's unclear, sometimes, what,
> exactly, we're fighting for, here.
> 
> [1] I would have loved to have seen doctorow's talk earlier this week:
> 
> "No Matter who's Winning the War on General Purpose Computing, You're Losing"
> 
> http://www.online-educa.com/programme/agenda/sessions/com11
> 
> hope it was filmed.?
> 
> Dave Täht
> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
> https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
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