Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden remotely spoke at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting, urging attendees to design an Internet for users, not spies, NDTV reports. “Who is the Internet for?” Snowden asked. “Who does it serve; who is the IETF’s ultimate customer?” He said the growing use of credit cards on the web is pinpointing users’ identities. “We need to divorce identity from persona in a lasting way,” he said. “If it’s creating more metadata, this is in general a bad thing.” Snowden urged the engineers to implement the SPUD protocol, reducing the number of intermediaries through which data passes by a combination of transport protocols.
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