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The Danger of the New Internet Choke Points

Abstract: 
The ongoing disclosures of pervasive surveillance of Internet users’ communications and data by national security agencies have prompted protocol designers, software and hardware vendors, as well as Internet service and content providers, to re-evaluate prevailing security and privacy threat models and to refocus on providing more effective security and confidentiality. This paper offers a complimentary analysis to identify some of the components of the Internet architecture that provide attractive opportunities for wholesale monitoring and/or interception, and, therefore, represent architectural vulnerabilities, or choke points. It also suggests possible mitigation strategies and pose some of the questions that need to be considered if the Internet is to evolve to reduce such vulnerabilities.
Author: 
Andrei Robachevsky , Christine Runnegar, Karen O'Donoghue and Mat Ford
Institution: 
Internet Society
Year: 
2014
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Information & Telecommunication
Internet & Cyberspace
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