It's already been a busy year in the area of Internet freedom and security.
10 of the Worst Moments in Network Security History
First, Google reported that it, along with a bunch of other major companies, had been hacked, and pointed the finger at China.
Then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a few "Remarks on Internet Freedom" in which she pushed for one Internet, without barriers.
Separately, the Federal Trade Commission notified about 100 companies that some of their secrets had been exposed by employees who were running peer-to-peer software.
Finally the Internet security firm NetWitness said that it had figured out that 75,000 computers at 2,500 companies had been compromised with the ZeuS Trojan starting in 2008.
Nope - not a good start to 2010. I would like to think that things will quiet down some for the rest of the year but it does not look like that will happen.
In early January, Google announced that it had been hacked from China, that the hackers seemed to be after the gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and that Google was going to review "feasibility of our business operations in China."
Well, that caused quite a splash. Google's accusation fit so well with the general public perception of China's approach to the Internet that it was easy to assume that the hacking was directed by the Chinese government.
Clinton did not go quite so far as to accuse the Chinese government of complicity during her speech on Internet freedom,but she did call upon it to "conduct a thorough review" of the Google hacks and that the results of the review be transparent. Clinton's speech was quite a good one from the point of view of those of us who value the positive impact of the communication enabled by the Internet.
Properly, she did not hide the fact that communication over the Internet can be used for good (human rights activists) and evil (terrorists).
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