December 29, 2010

Dutch agengy makes report for government..After a quiet christmas, the war continues,..

The Dutch agency Fabers published a report, commissioned by the Dutch government. My favourite dutch tech-site, Tweakers.net wrote this: "Those who are trying to hide their IP address, have a reason for it that is possibly "related to child pornography", says a study commissioned by the government. The researchers recommend a radical approach to cybercrime."....
I see the publication of this report is a response to the very recent affairs around child-porn in the Netherlands. Where these reports usually take months to write, this one was out amazingly fast. The news about the child-porn and molestation arrests was only 12 days ago. I wrote my "personal thought" post as a reaction to it.

Though the report actually gives a very thorough view of how phishing, spoofing etc. works, the news-article is all about cybercrime, and amongst other things it is suggesting that persons who hide their identity online, will have something to hide, and are therefore suspect. So from now on when you watch porn, you better do it openly, or else,....

The coverage of this article is a prime example of what is happening. Through the newsmedia we are being prepared to accept a lockdown of our internet. I'm sure some of my readers will already agree that is is time to do something about this terrible danger.
 I know that even amongst "government embedded friends" who are more knowledgeable about the web and it's dangers, it will seem odd, that we as paying consumers of the internet will not be able to choose our own protection against fraud. I would think that the majority of the consumers, that fund the internet, know they have to be carefull, just like in traffic on the road.
 Our governments, which by the way are also funded by us, will use reports like this to start blocking the possibilities of the web. It will be like they would put fences around every canal, to protect the stupid and innocent people that can't swim. I'm just saying they have us by the balls, be carefull...

While the original report is viewable in my browser, the download-link on their website gives me a .pdf file, that is damaged, according to Adobe Reader. I translated what they published on their newspage, with google, and it is quite accurate.
 The full translated newsarticle from Fabers agency if you're interested is here. If you have questions about the full report in Dutch, send me an email, and I'll see what I can do.

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