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== ''THE EPIC NETWORK CULTURE BACKGROUND INFO PAGE'' ==

&nbsp;"somewhat currated", not just a link dump. Not many links yet, but you can search for most of these topics.&nbsp;
<div><br/></div><div>News Sources</div>
*fnf blog: [http://freenetworkfoundation.org/?page_id=94 http://freenetworkfoundation.org/?page_id=94]
*cryptome.org
*twitter.com/ioerror (jake appelbaum)
*darknet subreddit
*eff blog: [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks]
*wired blog: [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/]
<div><br/></div><div>Organizations</div>
*chillingeffects.org
*eff (electronic freedom foundation)
*wikileaks
*2600
*software freedom law center
*riseup
*FSF (free software foundation)
<div><br/></div><div>Projects/Tools</div>
*Tor
*FreeNet
*mixmaster
*FreedomBox
*cjdns
*monkeysphere
<div><br/></div><div>Articles/BlogPosts/Etc</div>
*"Mother Earth, Mother Board" (1993) by Neal Stephenson [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html 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)" &nbsp;(2012) by James Bamford [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 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/ 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 https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html]
*"Cypherpunk Manifesto" (1993) by Eric Hughes &nbsp;[http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html]
*RFC3271: "The Internet is for Everyone" (2002) by Vint Cerf &nbsp;[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt]
<div><br/></div><div>Books</div>
*"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)
<div><br/></div><div>Talks (video)</div>
*Eben Moglen IOSC talk on FreedomBox
*Moxie Marlinkspice on phones and social pressure
<div><br/></div><div>History of digital censorship/privacy/control<br/></div>
*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
<div><br/></div><div>International Internet Regulations<br/></div>
*.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
<div><br/></div><div>"Internet Governance"</div>
*"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?
<div><br/></div><div>Telecommunications<br/></div>
*postal and telegraph regulations as precident
*US bell breakup
*investment/ownership of submarine cables
*FCC and radio spectrum allocation policies
<div><br/></div><div>"How the Internet Works"<br/></div>
*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)
<div><br/></div><div>General Internet History<br/></div>
*ARPANET
*universities, internet2
*gopher, mosaic
*w3c
*"endless autumn"
*see also: [http://www.livinginternet.com/i/i.htm http://www.livinginternet.com/i/i.htm]
<div><br/></div><div>Security, Encryption, Identity systems<br/></div>
*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