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tomg
Great Firewall of America.
tomp
That's not that bad of an idea, from the perspective of the rest of the world... At least the US would stop fucking around with the global network!

And, foreign costumers (e.g. from the EU) could enjoy better privacy protections if sites like Facebook become inaccessible.

DanielBMarkham
There are several rewrites of this article. Might be best just to let Clarke make his argument in his own words instead of reading a re-hash.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-o...

gee_totes
Totally agree.

<rant> My personal opinion is that RT is simply jazzy anti-American propaganda sold by Putin to the english speaking world. I do not think they are a legitimate news source. For a backup of my propaganda claim, please compare their coverage of the Occupy movement with Russian protests against Putin. </rant>

GigabyteCoin
Thank you. I fully agree. RT is sponsored completely (they have next to no advertising) by the Government of the Russian Federation.

I have a really tough time believing anything they say, too.

I turned it on the other night because my conspiracy theorist loving buddy enjoys their programming apparently, and everything was "USA is bad because of this"... "USA doesn't do that right"...

I mentioned that you shouldn't believe everything the russian goverment says and said "buddy" literally flipped out. He accused me of attacking his character and intelligence. I'm half worried he has been brainwashed by that channel. He is usually a pretty easy going guy.

schwit
How do you inspect encrypted data?
astrodust
You decrypt it, obviously. A lot of the so-called encrypted traffic is barely encrypted at all because key generators aren't sufficiently random.
dtf
From the Op-ed: "Should hackers uncover classified information and hand it over to the Chinese, writes Clarke, America’s “competitive edge” against other nations will be jeopardized."

An alternative to legislation might be to spend money and effort on a programme teaching American firms how to implement modern security. But this kind of practical approach fails to open the channels required to snoop on the general public.