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alt="key" align="left" height="100" width="110">It
seems like every day brings news of another major
Internet hack, some so huge and cunning that they
are blamed on government-sponsored "armies" of
hackers. According to one <a
href="http://readwrite.com/2014/12/04/cybersecurity-corporate-networks-ransomware-cyberattack">recent
report</a>, 82% of U.S. companies were hit last
year by at least one online attack, and though
libraries may think nobody would bother to attack
them, they, too, are increasingly coming under
attack. And there is also almost daily news of
surveillance of Internet traffic (sometimes in
preparation for a hack). No doubt about it, the
Internet has become scary. Last month, to combat
this trend, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
recommended that most Internet traffic be
encrypted by default, rather than using encryption
only in special circumstances.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/qanda-internet-encryption-as-the-new-normal/d/d-id/1317783?_mc=NWC_EDT_STUB">Q&A:
Internet encryption as the new normal</a>
(Dark Reading | Kelly Jackson Higgins) "The
Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which
oversees the Internet's architecture, protocols,
and standards efforts, officially called last
month for encryption to be deployed throughout
the protocol stack as a way to lock down the
privacy and security of information exchange. It
was a bold and important statement from the IAB,
and it likely will be the general blueprint for
new protocol efforts by the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF), which creates the protocol
specifications that run the Internet and devices
and systems connected to it."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/ObCNmWcsFPNTIdMX5fmbuJoKFR8">IAB
statement on Internet confidentiality</a>
(IETF mail archive | Russ Housley) "The IAB
urges protocol designers to design for
confidential operation by default. We strongly
encourage developers to include encryption in
their implementations, and to make them
encrypted by default. We similarly encourage
network and service operators to deploy
encryption where it is not yet deployed, and we
urge firewall policy administrators to permit
encrypted traffic. We believe that each of these
changes will help restore the trust users must
have in the Internet."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://threatpost.com/iab-urges-designers-to-make-encryption-the-default/109404">IAB
urges designers to make encryption the default</a>
(Threatpost | Dennis Fisher) "The statement by
the IAB is a direct response to the events of
the last couple of years and the revelations by
<a
href="https://threatpost.com/edward-snowden-and-the-death-of-nuance/103902">Edward
Snowden</a> of the NSA's massive surveillance
on the Internet. Internet companies and
technology vendors have responded to the NSA
revelations by increasing their use of
encryption, especially on links between data
centers. But the Internet itself was not
designed with security in mind. Rather, openness
and interoperability were the main goals of the
network's designers. The IAB believes that
ubiquitous encryption can help address the
shortcomings of the original design and protect
users from attackers and surveillance."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-commends-internet-architecture-board-recommendation-encryption-default">Internet
Society commends Internet Architecture Board
recommendation on encryption-by-default for
the Internet</a> (The Internet Society) "Like
the IAB, the ISOC Board of Trustees recognizes
that implementing this aspiration raises a
number of practical issues and technical
challenges. In addition to network management,
intrusion detection, and spam prevention, we
expect there will be economic and policy
challenges. As the organizational home for the
IETF, the Internet Society will take an active
role in facilitating and participating in the
conversations required to address these
challenges going forward."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com/pov/detail/detail?sid=67efe237-70f6-4884-8374-0a3ade55a699%40sessionmgr4001&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9cG92LWxpdmU%3d#db=pwh&AN=96230932">Internet
governance overview.</a> (<em>Congressional
Digest</em>, June 2014, p2-5)</li>
<li><a
href="http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=3bec8fc7-b0e1-41b4-b1f6-397d361094ab%40sessionmgr198&vid=0&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=91736498">Future-proof
encryption.</a> (<em>Communications of the
ACM</em>, Nov. 2013, p12-14 | Gregory Mone)</li>
<li><a
href="http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=e7d3edcd-8a1d-415b-bf1d-d84d5e3cb18a%40sessionmgr110&vid=0&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=98040111">Export
controls for tech companies: The basics and
the pitfalls of U.S. encryption controls.</a>
(<em>Journal of Internet Law</em>, Sept. 2014,
p1-12 | John R. Shane and Lori E. Scheetz)</li>
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