MOSCOW — At the end of a week of cyberattacks on popular, freewheeling Russian Web sites, which bloggers have blamed on shadowy government agencies, a top official with the federal security service on Friday proposed a ban on Skype, Gmail and Hotmail here because their use is “uncontrolled.”
An adviser to President Dmitry Medvedev, whose blog has been disrupted, was quick to criticize the proposal, and the communications minister, Igor Shchyogolev, ruled out the idea. But a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said it was worth studying and called the FSB’s proposal “quite well-reasoned.” The foreign e-mail and communications Web services use encryption technology that makes them inaccessible to the security agency, said Alexander Andreyechkin, head of the FSB’s information and special communication center. That, he said, represents a threat to national security.Washington Post
Governments around the world will continue to try to reign in the free exchange of information represented by the Internet. They will always say it is about 'security.' My advice? Encrypt everything. Overwhelm them with data they can't possibly track. Fight every aspect of government intrusion into this realm, or corporate co-opting of the infrastructure.
This is only about the continued of existence of any semblance of freedom on the planet, though ... no biggie.
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