EpicBackground

THE EPIC NETWORK CULTURE BACKGROUND INFO PAGE

 "somewhat currated", not just a link dump. Not many links yet, but you can search for most of these topics. 

News Sources

• fnf blog: http://freenetworkfoundation.org/?page_id=94
• cryptome.org
• twitter.com/ioerror (jake appelbaum)
• darknet subreddit
• eff blog: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
• wired blog: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/

Organizations

• chillingeffects.org
• eff (electronic freedom foundation)
• wikileaks
• 2600
• software freedom law center
• riseup
• FSF (free software foundation)

Projects/Tools

• Tor
• FreeNet
• mixmaster
• FreedomBox
• cjdns
• monkeysphere

Articles/BlogPosts/Etc

• "Mother Earth, Mother Board" (1993) by Neal Stephenson http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
• "The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)"  (2012) by James Bamford http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1"
• "The Digital Imprimatur" (2003) by John Walker http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
• "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996) by John Perry Barlow (eff.org) https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
• "Cypherpunk Manifesto" (1993) by Eric Hughes  http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
• RFC3271: "The Internet is for Everyone" (2002) by Vint Cerf  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt

Books

• "The Information" (2011) by James Gleick (non-fiction)
• "How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village" (1992) by Arthur Clark (non-fiction)
• "Little Brother" (2011) by Cory Doctorow (fiction, near-future dystopian)

Talks (video)

• Eben Moglen IOSC talk on FreedomBox
• Moxie Marlinkspice on phones and social pressure

History of digital censorship/privacy/control

• fordsucks.com (fordreallysucks.com)
• DeCSS algorithm (for DVD viewing)
• USA: DMCA (digital millenium copyright act)
• USA: SOPA/PIPA
• Palladium, "trusted computing"
• Clipper Chip
• wikileaks
• p2p file sharing: Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella, bittorrent
• crypto wars: Bernstein v. United States
• Great Firewall of China
• deep packet inspection
• 2010-2011 SSL failures: comodogate, DigiNotar, firesheep, Iranian facebook MITM
• network neutrality
• DRM: digital rights management
• restricted boot
• software patents
• browser wars
• patriot act
• "real name" policies on social networks
• US customs domain siezures
• google pullout of china

International Internet Regulations

• .de "imprint"
• EU data retention
• .cn
• FCC network neutrality position
• US common carrier
• TLD-specific registration requirements
• south korean id number system
• international copyright laws, cooperation
• "3-strikes" laws

"Internet Governance"

• "rough consensus, working code"
• standards/protocols: IETF (internet engineering task force)
• IP addressing: IANA (inter assigned names authority) , ARIN (american registry for internet numbers)
• DNS: ICANN (internet corporation for assigned names and numbers)
• USA: FCC rural networks, common carrier, spectrum
• HTML: w3c
• other: IOSC (internet society)
• spamhaus
• UN treaties?

Telecommunications

• postal and telegraph regulations as precident
• US bell breakup
• investment/ownership of submarine cables
• FCC and radio spectrum allocation policies

"How the Internet Works"

• network layer paradigm
• message passing pattern, server/client pattern, p2p pattern, circuit/stream pattern
• stateless vs. stateful
• TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol), UDP (user datagram protocol)
• tunneling, encapsulation
• global static addressing vs. NAT/DHCP (network address translation, dynamic host configuration protocol)
• ISP ecosystem/economics: retail, national, international
• "backbone" scale internet: AS (autonomous system) numbering, BGP (border gateway protocol) , failures
• cloud/datacenter hosting
• DNS hierarchy
• SSL/TLS hierarchy
• VPNs
• modern CDNs (contend delivery networkds)
• DHT (distributed hash table)
• "mobile internet": 3G, 4G, WiMAX
• IPv4 -> IPv6
• DNSSEC (dns security)
• IPSEC (ip security)

General Internet History

• ARPANET
• universities, internet2
• gopher, mosaic
• w3c
• "endless autumn"
• see also: http://www.livinginternet.com/i/i.htm

Security, Encryption, Identity systems

• SSL/TLS (secure socket layer, transit layer security)
• public key
• OTR (off the record)
• PGP/GPG "web of trust" (pretty good privacy)
• SSH (secure shell)
• OAuth, openid