Metadata - It's DataJohn Lindsay

www.lindsaystrategic.com@bigjsl

The last 20 years

• iiNet - CTO

• Internode - Regulatory and Technology

• iiNet - Network Operations

• Chariot - GM

• iiNet SA - Partner

MetaData

• Internet Metadata

• What is it?

• Who wants yours?

• Why is it important right now?

Life online

• The Internet is not just the web

But for many people it is

• DNS - turns names into numbers

• TCP turns IP into data pipes

• SSL turns TCP into meaningless noise

IP address

• Your 4 billionth of the v4 Internet

• Probably shared with your household

• Possibly shared with everyone on your WiFi service

But you're just a crank!

• A billion dollar public company doesn't think so:

http://blog.iinet.net.au/protecting-your-privacy/

SSL

• Secure Socket Layer

• https://

• Now your URLs are hidden

• Who doesn't like that?

DNS

• DNS is a hole in the SSL armor

• DNSsec - slow and steady progress - thanks auDA

• Why isn't SSL access to DNS standard?

Some more questions

• Is Privacy dead?

• But think about the children!?!

• What next?

Privacy

• Law enforcement - carve-out from Privacy Act

• To transact you waive your rights to privacy

• Young people today are the most surveilled ever

But I have nothing to hide

• "Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre."

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Attributed to Cardinal Richelieu 1595 - 1642

Who wants your Metadata?

• Advertisers and marketers

• Notice Google and others shifted to https?

• Credit reference agencies

• Experian, Equifax and Trans Union

• Law Enforcement and Security

• To have a good rummage around

Why now?

• Moore's Law

• Shugart's Law

• Tractable problems

What next?

• Encryption arms race

• When you outlaw encryption only ...

everyone has encryption

Thank you!John Lindsay

www.lindsaystrategic.com@bigjsl