The recent rush to adopt technologies for countering e-mail abuses like spam and phishing could pose a dangerous threat to freedom on the Internet. “These proposals are extremely dangerous,” Eric Johansson, a networking consultant for the TriArche Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told TechNewsWorld. “We’re at the decision point right now of whether or not we’re going to have a relatively free and open Net for e-mail or [whether it is] going to be centrally controlled,” he added.
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IETF Conference Debates Antispam Proposals
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 2, 2004 07:35 AMThe recent rush to adopt technologies for countering e-mail abuses like spam and phishing could pose a dangerous threat to freedom on the Internet. “These proposals are extremely dangerous,” Eric Johansson, a networking consultant for the TriArche Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told TechNewsWorld. “We’re at the decision point right now of whether or not we’re going to have a relatively free and open Net for e-mail or [whether it is] going to be centrally controlled,” he added.