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X-No-Wiretap (antimatter15.com)
30 points by antimatter15 on Sept 7, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


I remember the "American Bit" or similar that was mentioned in Ars comments.


I assume this is a joke, but really though, interesting concept.


Would terrorists really abstain from forging this out of fear of penalty for purjury? And why would I give up all my anonymity on the Internet just to prevent the NSA from accidentally capturing my traffic?


It's satire.


It's a double satire, actually. The obvious level is the infeasibility, in the good old style of http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514 `Evil Bit'.

At the other, darker and more nefarious level are the proposals of national electronic ID, being put forth every once in a while. A government-issued ID would be the mandated ID for official and semi-official transactions. It's easy to imagine that any communication not signed with such ID would be subject to extra scrutiny, and possibly treated as exempt from legal protections.




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