Here is the breakdown of what's going on at the Google DC event that we just posted on.
A detailed summary/wrap up will be posted later on this evening.
For now...enjoy.
5:24pm
Lessig:
There is a plan for an iPatriot act:
Give gov't authority to examine all data at all times. Privacy is a zero sum game.
What will the future look like:
A) protect privacy and security
B) let the government do it.
Answer? Prepare.
If privacy is like copyright, recognize that both are out of control.
No. You can protect copyright (and privacy) in other ways without destroying the internet.
Privacy fighters need to find the same thing: alternative theory of privacy.
Can privacy nuts live without the blocking gathering of data?
"Tracable anonynymity"
System is insufficienty secure...need to make it it more trustworthy...
Government must be accountable if we give up some "rights."
5:17pm
Lessig talks about Zittrain saying the piracy and copyright have the same problem: data out of control.
Tech used to help control privacy and copyright because breaking both used to be expensive. Responses are public and private:
Privacy) for privacy self protection for copyright DRM.
Public) copyright - massive legislation, privacy not so much...
5:05pm
More good people can beat a few bad people...still Zittrain.
5:00pm
Closed platform era: iPhone and Facebook platform...
4:55pm
Tech makers can change stuff you own:
Example - TiVo v EchoStar, echostar had to disable their DVR...why can manufacturers have a window after sale?
Example - OnStar sued against making their in-car mics spy on people. Also, normal mobile phones...available without warrants.
California wanted remote control thermostats for climate control by government..
4:51pm
Zittrain sees the end of the "generative" technologies...
Instead, "information appliances" like mobile phones, no third party code...
IPod, iPhone, Kindle, etc. Steve Jobs says consumers want lockdown.
4:44pm
Zittrain talks about botnets and trust..."Made for TV after school special"
4:40pm
1) From generative back to sterile: blogs
Starts as silly - cats that look like hitler...
Gets serious - josh marshall at talking points memo, people in myanmar and kenya etc
4:37pm
"Hourglass Architecture" for both the Internet and the PC
4:33pm
Still Zittrain: talking about CompuServe - network AND content provider.
That changed when the internet became commercial...
4:29pm
Apple II killer app: visicalc.
4:26pm
Zittrain:
In north korea, radios can only be tuned to 3 stations. South Koreans want to send them solar powered radios.
Part 0: in 1880, Herman Hollereth invented punch cards for the census bureau. Cut the time for Census to 2.5 years. Rented them to the US Government. Became IBM.
IBM machine could do anything, but you needed to go to IBM to get it programmed. "Sterile technology"
4:20pm
Vint Cerf: intended to be an open system, allowing anyone who wanted acceess to get to it. It is important that it stay that wat because the economic success has allowed new experiments "without permission."
That openness has made it an interesting environment, despite potential for abuse.
Internet does not see international boundaries.
Cerf sees 3 ways to prevent abuse;
A) technical, doesn't aleways work.
B) detect and respond, difficult to trace source, but next natural step.
C) education - like gravity...en mass very powerful.
Because the 'net is global in scope, means of mitigation requirew common agreements of values despite cultural norms and business practice. Need to go after abusers on an international scale (treaties, etc).
Compares to the "law of the sea" in the long run...
