On: Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You

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"... Eben Moglen, was putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet — this time, without governments and big companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers. ..."

The key idea behind the "Freedom box" is to own your logs and not let anyone else infer without your express permission. The idea was discussed in full in his speech, "Freedom In the Cloud" at the NY Internet society, 2010FEB05. You can read speech ~ http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomIn... or listen/watch here ~ http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338

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And his recent FOSDEM speech can be read at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fos.... There was good discussion on the recent LWN story, too: http://lwn.net/Articles/426763/