Robert Hernreich - onmouseover="return window.status='http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/12/internet.anonymity.threat/'" onmouseout="window.status=''" href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/12/internet.anonymity.threat/">Internet anonymity endangered by UN agency project

A set of technical standards being developed behind closed doors by a United Nations agency that would potentially curb users� ability to remain anonymous on the Internet has privacy advocates and technologists alarmed, according to a Friday report. The standards are proposed by the Chinese government and the US National Security Agency is also part of the IP Traceback drafting group, named ... Robert Hernreich

Its time for our periodic We-Suck-At-Internet rant, which entails comparing and despairing (thanks, Stewart Smalley) over how slow the Internet is in the US. Once again, Japan has us beat and is ready for next-generation applications like high-quality video streaming. But Slovenia Lithuania Latvia Theyre faster than us, too read more Robert Hernreich