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On the Feasibility of a Technological Response to the Surveillance Morass

  • Joan FeigenbaumEmail author
  • Jérémie Koenig
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8809)

Abstract

We consider mass surveillance from a computer-science perspective. After presenting some objections to the behavior of the US National Security Agency and its counterparts in allied nations (emphasizing technical problems associated with such behavior, rather than political, legal, and social problems), we propose a grass-roots, technological response: decentralized cloud services, facilitated by open-source, decentralized configuration-management tools.

Keywords

Cloud Service Internet Protocol Intelligence Agency Domain Name System Fourth Amendment 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Yale UniversityNew HavenUSA

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